>Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 12:30:41 -0700
>From: "Aughenbaugh, W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [SM] DiskWarrior Copy...
>Mark,
>I will repeat that I have not looked at Mount Ranier. However, I have used
>Adaptec DirectCD on a PC. It is less than wonderful. And it is s l o o o w.
>The PC's clock speed doesn't help much either. It is roughly an hour to
>format the CDRW disk. Then copying files takes a while. Deleting files also
>takes a while. I'm not sure about the reclaimed space and how that is
>re-allocated because frankly it isn't really worth the effort. Perhaps a
>faster drive would help, and background burning would help, but what is
>really the point?
>reason that you use CD in the first place is to preserve your variations. If
>you delete them (assuming no other backup) from the CD, they are gone
>forever. The little writing that I do convinces me that I can never recall
>the exact style and phrasing when I try to recreate something that was lost
>because of a crash or software glitch. CDR media is cheap (although MANAGING
>a CD library is not) and even CDRW media is not that expensive, so why would
>it be necessary to reclaim a portion of the media instead of having to
>capability to revert or reclaim portions of an earlier version? If, when the
>project is complete, you never want to seen it again, just TOSS the CDs.
>On the speculative side (PURE SPECULATION), I believe that the reason (at
>least on MacOS 9) that UDF is not fully implemented has to do with the Mac's
>cards and FW drives, one MUST 'put away' (aka trash) a volume before
>ejecting the media OR file and/or disk corruption WILL occur. With a FW hard
>drive, it is possible to repower the device, but my experience has been that
>CF cards must be reformatted to be used after this happens. Even CDs (that
>cannot be corrupted) require this operation. PCs do not (yet) suffer from
>this data/volume corruption, but even Win2K warns of this (improper
>unmounting) when removable media (other than CD) is not 'ejected' properly.
>On[e] method, given background burning, would be to image the RW disk, erase
>same, and reburn after reconfiguring the image. Granted it's not like
>having >having a large floppy, but it probably wouldn't be much slower.
Dear W. Augenbaugh,
Certainly when it comes to photographs I agree with you that the
CDR and multi-session burning is the best way to store data. When it
archiving files that are in final form, even if they may be revised later,
such archiving methods make sense as well. When, however, you are changing
a chapter, or working on it hour by hour, it becomes confusing to have too
many copies around. I am alas old enough now to have started writing in the
time of typewriters when one went through a number of drafts, but those
drafts were generally markups on a single copy. If one page was too heavily
reworked, one tended to retype. And there was the doubtful but neverthless
real joy of just taking out your aggression on a recondite page by
crumpling it up, stamping it underfoot and throwing it in the trash. Doing
that to a whole disk when one has other files toward whom one still retains
affection is not possible. One has to, or rather I have to, as a writer of
fiction, and even in my critical essays, say goodbye forever sometimes to a
particular version of a chapter, and deletion is my way of sealing that
decision. So even if it is "slooowww" as you say, I want the capability
without having to reformat the whole disk. Some stingy instinct in me that
makes me use the back of old pages for notes, and try to maintain even in
Manhattan, a compost pile in an plastic receptacle on the roof, craves the
space back when I delete a file. I don't want to have to switch Toast in
and out of my extension files when I use UDF. Someone on this list must
have used a Mount Ranier CDRW drive with the Software Architects software
and a Mac or an S-900.
Of course it's a bit silly and a prodigous waste of time. Still it
annoys me that the PC should have a capacity that the Mac does not have.
"Oh reason not the need!" as poor King Lear cries. You helped show the way
to bring the faster Scsi connection out of the back of the S-900 and now a
slew of dead Orb and Syjet drives are what I have to show for most of my
trouble but I don't regret it. (I do run the Plextor external Scsci off
that connection and it works fast.) Let's climb Mount Ranier and see what
the view is like.
Mark
P.S. I don't quite understand the suggestion about imaging the RW disk,
erasing and reburning after reconfiguring. Do you mean, creating and
holding an image on a separate drive of a previous CDRW session,
reformatting the whole disk and then reburning the image to it? My one
experience of using the RW drive with the old UDF and Direct CD was that
writing an individual file at least was no worse than the speed of a
floppy. Reformatting a disk however is another matter. That takes a lot
more time. By the way, does the software included with new Yamaha drives
(Nero, I believe) or Discribe, do this deletion and addition in any way
that is superior to the Toast software?
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