Talk:Optical disc recording technologies

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This is a new article to aggregate all the CD burning technology stubs (one of which got re-nominated for AFD the day it was kept). It's part of the new series on optical disc authoring. I have merged all the short articles here. —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-01-15 12:29Z

I assume that is why the buffer underrun section is copied from another wikipedia article Stwalkerster 15:58, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Once-Writeable

I must say I'm not famaliar with the new terms. It is the norm to refer to CDR as once-writeable instead of write once? CD Recordable drives were basically WORM drives. --NYC 18:18, 26 Dec 2006

[edit] Article Incomplete

This article is only about CD/DVD Recordables. It does not address the entire line of optical storage. Optical WORM (see also once-writable above) Write Once Read Many drives and media existed long before the CDs. MO Magneto-Optical drive which was rewritable also came before CDs althought MO only used optical info for track alignment, data were stored magnetically so technically not an optical disc. --NYC 18:18, 26 Dec 2006

[edit] Raw writing modes

Most "authoring" (I find the term misleading) software and "recent" (as in most ATAPI-compatible) drives allow the use of various "raw" writing modes (I've seen RAW16, RAW96P, and RAW96R). They seem to be distinct from DAO/SAO (between which most applications do not differentiate), but do in essence perform a whole-disc write. Are these methods wholly distinct from the existing ones? If so, how do they function (differently from TAO/DAO/SAO)?—Kbolino 21:21, 14 March 2007 (UTC)ť