Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!sgiblab!pacbell.com!amdahl!netcomsv!netcom.com!whitten From: whitten@netcom.com (David Whitten) Subject: Re: Anyone using writeable CDROM? Message-ID: Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <1994Apr5.141812.1141@datcon.co.uk> <2nt3pu$lm9@search01.news.aol.com> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 17:06:22 GMT Lines: 26 BMcElroy01 (bmcelroy01@aol.com) wrote: : In article <1994Apr5.141812.1141@datcon.co.uk>, sh@datcon.co.uk (Steve Hoole) : writes: : >We are considering using writeable CDROM as a medium for delivering and : >archiving our code (i.e. nothing fancy like "multimedia" - just thousands : >of files) as a more convenient/reliable alternative to tape. : Steve, : We use a JVC RomMaker - unless you get into multi-session (being able to : write multiple times to the CD), as far as I know (I'm no expert) you'll need : to pre-master. The basic write-able CD-ROM (again, as far as I undertand it) is : like a tape - you are actually formatting it on the fly, and writing the byets : sequentially. The reason I know this to be true (to the extent I didn't butcher : the details) is that we had a second device on our SCSI card, and a few files : were bad. We were told that the write has to go from start to finish : uninterrupted. : :::Brian McElroy We're using Sony's CDW 900E and an Infoserver. essentially to do what you said. make a hard disk copy of th e data, then copy to cd-recorder. no probs so far...