At 02:29 PM 08/06/2005, Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
> I assume a CDRW would
>suffice for my purpose, however, once I select "Burn," I can neither
>add or delete any data from it, right?
No, that's backwards.
CDRW (Re-Writeable) can be used just like a giant floppy. You can put
files on, and delete them, and rename them, etc. But you don't burn
anything to a CDRW -- you just save or move files as though it were
any other kind of disk. But my understanding is that there are all
kinds of potential problems with CDRW (David Fenton was talking about
this a little while ago). I believe they are more error and
corruption-prone, and I believe also that the drivers which allow
reading and writing are not native to the OS. This means that a CDRW
you write on your computer may only be readable on another computer
if they're using the same packet writing software.
CDR, on the other hand, is essentially a write-once medium. It is
possible to burn to a CDR multiple times -- called different sessions
-- and then close the disk at the end, but you can only add new data
in a session, not delete existing. Speaking personally, I have had
difficulties with some CD drives not being able to read multisession
CDRs. It's entirely possible that these were older drives and that
this problem doesn't exist anymore -- but with blank CDRs going for
about $0.25 each, I've never worried about burning once and then
throwing it away and burning a new one when I wanted to add things.
Aaron.
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