Re: CDR's & MP3 for GS???

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labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth) wrote:

>> >CDRW disc, they must support a feature called Multiread (regardless of
>> >whether the disc was burned or packet written).  The concept of sessions
>> >doesn't really apply to packet writing, and there is always just one icon.
>> 
>> That is EXACTLY what I saw with the HP CD-RW drive.  Packet
>> writing didn't seem to take much CPU power at all and worked
>> just like floppy/hard drive writing.
>> 
>> I'm pretty sure the IIGS can handle this.  I mean, it can handle
>> the Tulin Optical drive and that's probably because that drive
>> used packets, just like a floppy/hard drive.
>
>Well, wouldn't someone not only need to write a driver for the drive, but
>a UDF FST as well? And at that point, why not just use something other
>than a multiread CDRW, like a semi-large HD? I mean, you and the few
>others with that CDRW drive would be able to read the disc, but not anyone
>else with a CD drive, so...

All you need is a UDF driver, I think.

For example, from what I've read Direct CD on the Mac uses
HFS as a file system.  I'm sure on the IIGS, the only FSTs
you need would be for ProDOS or HFS.

This is all just food for thought, though.  I would imagine a
multiread CDRW to be not very useful except for personal
storage, unlike a CDR in CD-ROM format which can be read
in any CD-ROM drive.

Maybe when multiread capable and CDRW readable
CD-ROM drives become popular and cheap, this will change.

However, say I was to get such a CDRW drive for my
Windows PC, I wouldn't mind a driver for GS/OS so that
I can hook up the CDRW drive to the IIGS to back up
all my storage on two CDRWs.  ;-)

Having a 1GB drive on the IIGS is fun and useful, but
just HAVING that much storage tends to make one use
it more and so I've got >500MB of that drive filled up.
A CDRW would be the ideal backup medium.