From: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:55:39 +0100
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Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
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"D. Hazelton" <dhazelton@enter.net> wrote:

> > 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.
>
> Joerg, the practical definition of WORM is "Write Once, Read Many" - whether 
> or not it supports writes to random sectors is a moot point, a CDR does seem 
> to fit the bill of a "write once, read many" medium.

What you believe is irrelevent as long as it does not match the WORM device
definition.

See www.t10.org

J?rg

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