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  1. Re:300gb? by cheesybagel · · Score: 1 · on InPhase Announces 300GB Holographic Discs

    Mount-Rainier was supposed to make CD drives seem more like random read/write devices, but few devices support it. Dunno if its because of expensive licensing fees, expensive support hardware or what.

  2. Mt. Rainier by The+Clockwork+Troll · · Score: 1 · on Getting Rid of the Disks
    Widespread drive (and O/S) support for the Mt. Rainier packet-writing/defect-handling standard should go a long way toward making floppies obsolete.

    For the masses, the next release of Windows should feature built-in Mt. Rainier support and I believe Linux has had its act together on this one for a while.

  3. Re:PC BIOS is the enemy of floppy replacement by RJHill · · Score: 1 · on Philip's SFFO 3cm 4Gig Optical Discs

    CD-ROM isn't a random-access read-write medium. Even packet-mode CD-RW will never be an adequate replacement for random-access r/w media.



    CD-RW or DVD+RW drives which support Philips' Mount Rainier specification can be treated just like a floppy. The standard has been out for about a year and a half, but there are very few compatible drives in existence (HP DVD+RW, Teac and Yamaha CD, there may be others by this time), but AFAIK, Windows does not support it in the OS, though there is a kernel patch for Linux support.



    An 8cm form factor DVD+RW (announced a month or two ago) with Mount Rainier support would be perfect companion for a sub-notebook. Something like the Imation RipGo! recast as a DVD+RW would be OK too. 1.4GB (less ~25% overhead for the Mt. Rainier filesystem) on something that works like a floppy would be very nice.



    In the current political climate, every time I see a new optical technology proposed, I become suspicious that it's going to turn out to be an avenue for the introduction of new hardware DRM, i.e. if you want our shiny new storage medium, you must accept reduced utility.



    Time will tell, I guess.

  4. Mt. Rainer by MagPulse · · Score: 1 · on Death to the 3.5" Floppy?

    CD-RW drives are starting to conform to a new standard that will ease the transition to a floppy-less environment. The standard is called Mt. Rainer. It enables native OS support for file writing and deleting, and lets you write to a CDRW within a minute of inserting it using on-the-fly formatting. It also writes in 2K or 4K blocks instead of 64K that drives today use.

    Here's a great article if you want to read more.

  5. The Thin Red Line by Kibo · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Expert Witness Stumbles

    What do you think about having CD writing integrated as part of the OS in XP? No need for anyone to buy nero, or CD creator. Is it just more of MS brand evil?

    Or is it these people? They are anti-competively making things more intuitive and easier to use, they must be stopped!

  6. Details on CD-MRW / Mt. Rainier by martyb · · Score: 5, Informative · on Mount Rainier for Linux

    For more info on what Mt. Rainier (CD-MRW) is all about, check out their mt-rainier web site