Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 14:48:49 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: msanders@aros.net (Michael K. Sanders) Cc: terry@lambert.org, garbanzo@hooked.net, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd@atipa.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of USB, TX chipset, PIIX3, etc. Message-ID: <199708062148.OAA18376@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199708062135.PAA29374@shell.aros.net> from "Michael K. Sanders" at Aug 6, 97 03:35:30 pm
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> >I believe you can burn a "short" DVD in a normal CD burner, and > >then pretend it's a DVD in oly 1/3 of the DVD drives out there. 8-(. > > Sorry Terry, but in a word "No". > > CD-Rs don't burn DVD, they burn CDs. You may be able to read that CD-R > disc in a DVD-ROM drive, but that doesn't make the disc DVD. > > DVD uses a shorter wavelength laser than CD. It is not possible to > read or write a DVD disc in a standard CD-ROM or CD-R drive. You can burn a CD-ROM (NOT DVD) with a CD ROM burner, and have it contain a "short" DVD FS. Most (2/3's) of DVD players will believe it is a regular CD-ROM, not a DVD. Several DVD CDROM drives, however, recognize DVD's based on their format, not their recording technology (on the theory that software will want to be written to DVD's in a non-DVD revording format to make them "long" CD-ROMs). Unfortunately, the majority do not. The point is not to make a DVD, but to make a disk which the drive will interpret as a "short" DVD. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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