Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:26:07 -0500 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Larry S. Marso" <larry@marso.com> Subject: Re: which CD-R to get Message-ID: <199810301627.LAA32265@laker.net>
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On Fri, 30 Oct 1998 10:03:12 -0500, Larry S. Marso wrote: >On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 06:22:51PM -0500, Steve Friedrich wrote: >> >> RW media is STILL too damn expensive and WAY too much trouble. You >> have to erase the whole stinking thing and start over. > >Why? Write-once media is $1 a piece ... and you get over 650MBs. >Re-Writable media is less than $5 a piece. I haven't tracked the price so close. Last time I checked it was up around $25/piece and I figured it had dropped since then but not as far as you describe. That does make it more viable. >I've had to erase and start over with my RW's several times, getting >the hang of things. But once you have the procedures down, you can >write successive sessions on an ISO-9660 multisession format CD quite >easily, filling up every last megabyte. And it's all available in a >consolidated directory. When I bought my Philips OMNIwriter, the software to support CDRW (UDP) was still *green*. The software was only provided for Win95 (which I don't have 8o). The software to *burn* CDs would also run under WinNT (which I have). I would like to be able to use CDRW under FreeBSD if the software is acceptable... >Also, I understand that CD media measures it's lifetime in decades, not >months/years. Hmm, I think there is considerable debate here. The Library of Congress did a study and decided to NOT switch to CDs as archive media because CDs would only last 10 years at most, sometimes less. And I think that was *stamped* CDs, not CDR media. CDR media can be destroyed with sunlight!! I was going to run a few tests, but haven't had time. I think I read about these issues in CD-ROM Professional, or perhaps one of the other CD-ROM specific mags... Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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