From: "D. Hazelton" <dhazelton@enter.net>
To: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:59:20 -0500
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On Tuesday 14 February 2006 08:55, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "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

Joerg, I didn't say it was what _I_ believed. What I said was "WORM" means 
"Wrint One, Read Many" - since a CDR can be described in that fashion, it 
does match the description. Since it matches the description, most people 
lump the CDR medium in with all "WORM" medium. Is that clear enough?

DRH
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