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High Density CDs
goofrider writes "Sanyo introduced a new format called HD-Burn, supported by their new DVD+/-RW chip. It allows the drive to burn up 1.4GB of data using a regular 700MB blank CD-R blank. The resulting HD-Burned CD-R can only be read by supporting DVD/DVD-ROM drives and CD-ROM drives. Most DVD/DVD-ROM drives can support the format via a firmware upgrade. It's unclear how easy and how likely will it be for future drives to support this format. In contrast, Plextor released their new GigaRec technology in their new PlexWriter Premium (read a review here). GigaRec also records on regular blank CD-Rs, allows up to 1GB of data on a 700MB disc. however, the disc can be read on any modern good-quality CD-ROM drives with no firmware upgrades required. So now I can record 2x the data on a CD-R but I still can't have filenames longer than 64 characters. :)"
Why else would you subscribe? I mean the whole point would be to beat everyone else to the Fist Post right?
Eat at Joe's.
So we can store more data on old media blah blah blah.... I want my blue laser burner and media, I can store some real amounts of data then!
-illumina+us "I put on my robe and wizard hat..."
Remember the hard-sectored floppys? Vector machines had 8in hard-sectored floppys. When they had problems (when didn't they!), they'd use the floppy drive LED to blink Morse code for trouble-shooting.
Didn't Altos use hard-sectored 5 1/4 floppys? Or am I imagining that?
Are we off-topic yet?
See what I've been reading.