Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932431AbWBMPON (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:14:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932437AbWBMPON (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:14:13 -0500 Received: from mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de ([193.174.154.14]:58024 "EHLO mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932431AbWBMPOL (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:14:11 -0500 From: Joerg Schilling Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:12:51 +0100 To: trudheim@gmail.com, schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de Cc: nix@esperi.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davidsen@tmr.com, axboe@suse.de Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) Message-ID: <43F0A1F3.nailKUSV1V88J@burner> References: <787b0d920601241923k5cde2bfcs75b89360b8313b5b@mail.gmail.com> <20060125153057.GG4212@suse.de> <43D7AF56.nailDFJ882IWI@burner> <20060125181847.b8ca4ceb.grundig@teleline.es> <20060125173127.GR4212@suse.de> <43D7C1DF.1070606@gmx.de> <878xt3rfjc.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> <43ED005F.5060804@tmr.com> <43F0776F.nailKUS94FU3M@burner> <515e525f0602130446s1091f09ande10910f65a0f5f0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <515e525f0602130446s1091f09ande10910f65a0f5f0@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: nail 11.2 8/15/04 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1092 Lines: 28 Anders Karlsson wrote: > On 2/13/06, Joerg Schilling wrote: > [snip] > > - Older CD-writers identified as WORM although a CD-R is not a WORM. > > Nitpicking I know, but technically, CD-R is WORM in the case of single > session write. And as long as the writer works, who cares if it is > labled WORM, CD-R or Earthworm.. If you did know what a worm is, you would know that you are not correct: A WORM allows you to randomly write any sector once. A CD-R does not allows you to do this. J?rg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J?rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/