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Re: GCR <--CP/M --> MS-DOS and vice versa?

On 8 Mar 2003, David Wilson wrote:
|>|What?!, DVD and CD use spiral? What about the 650 mb floppy
|>|you can make on a CD writer with CD/RW disks? Are they also
|>|spiral? I think not.
|
|>The DVD is a spiral, I thought?  But the CD used more or less
|>circular tracks.
|
|Yes, the CD-R and CD-RW discs are spirals. There is a groove
|in the substrate that the CD writer can follow so that it knows
|where to write. The 650MB you make with DirectCD or InCD is still
|a spiral but written in packet format rather than a single continuous
|track.
|
|>|Anyway, where can I read about that? I never heard that before.
|
|Just do a web search (google or altavista) looking for keywords
|like CD FAQ packet writing.

Thanks, I'll do that.  It sounds very interesting!