Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!agate!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!emory!swrinde!pipex!uknet!zippy.dct.ac.uk!str-ccsun!strath-cs!mac-13.cs.strath.ac.uk!user Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.multimedia Subject: Re: "Multi-session" means . . .? Message-ID: From: cr@cs.strath.ac.uk (Chris Reid) Date: Thu, 09 Jun 1994 10:01:21 +0000 Followup-To: alt.cd-rom,comp.multimedia References: <2t571m$d8s@usc.edu> Organization: University of Strathclyde NNTP-Posting-Host: mac-13.cs.strath.ac.uk Lines: 25 Xref: cdrom.com alt.cd-rom:4775 comp.multimedia:4617 In article , meh0045@mcdata.com (Mark Henrichs) wrote: > Tom Savola (savola@usc.edu) wrote: > : Anyone have a quicky description/definition of what "multi-session" means for > : CD-ROM drives? Does this have to do with how information is stored on CD-ROM > : disks, or how the drive accesses information, or both? > > "Multi-session" refers to the Kodak Photo CD capability for recording more > than one "session" of photos to the same Kodak Photo CD. For instance, if [snip] We're producing ISO 9660 multisession CD-ROM's here. Nothing to do with Kodak. Most drives these days can read multisession CD-ROM's, but not all. That's why we only use multisession ones during development. The finished product is only sold on single session CD's. Chris +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chris Reid e-mail: cr@cs.strath.ac.uk | |Dept. Computer Science, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland| +-----------------------------------------------------------------+