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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito who wrote (42262)	1/4/1998 11:20:00 AM
From: AreWeThereYet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Allen >> You mean I can just use the DOS copy command? Wow! When did that happen? Oh, right, now I remember. Never. << Yes, indeed you can use the DOS copy command for all CD-RW and some CDR which support and have packet writing software installed. Win98 will probably have UDF built-in which make jobs much easier for non CDR/CDRW owner. you are right that CD-RW and Jaz and Zip are used for different purpose respectively but you are wrong on that CDR and CD-RW is less reliable than Zip and ???Jaz???. If you don't want to wait for the 4X writer price to drop, consider the HP 7110, Philips CDD36100 for IDE or Ricoh 6200S for SCSI. aC

To: Cogito who wrote (42262)	1/4/1998 4:43:00 PM
From: FuzzFace	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

Allen, I have never used CD-R or CD-RW, but have read about them. (That sounds almost as bad as "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV.") The Techno-god caught me in a statement that is no longer correct, namely that you have to toss the whole CD-R when you make a mistake. That was how the 1st gen worked, but they improved it since, by supporting the changing of the end-of-volume marker into an end-of-file marker, as Andy alluded to. What I should have said is that you have to throw out the whole CD-R after a mistake if you want a perfect CD-R with no waste - something that is only important if you need all of the CD-R's capacity. Obviously, if the amount of data is much less than the amount of free space, a few mistakes won't hurt. As you said, so I have read: <You absolutely cannot read and write to CD-R disks as if they are floppies.> I believe that unless a medium supports simple read/write and rewrite like a mag disk, it will always be limited to a niche market. That's it in a nutshell. It continues to amuse me that the "CD-R(W)/DVD will crush Zip" crowd makes the same mistake as the Fry's guy I mentioned in an earlier post, in thinking the Zip's primary purpose is as a bulk backup medium. The RoRo's truck out bogus arguments one at a time, which we then refute. After they run out, they wait a while, then start all over, like they have forgotten all the refutations. I am constantly torn between the case for ignoring them versus gamely playing along and endlessly refuting them. My summary of the case for ignoring them (mute-mode): 1) Correcting the incorrigible is a waste of time 2) It clutters the thread, crowding out meaningful discussion and making us all look like a bunch of squabblers 3) It gives them the attention they so desperately need, and so rewards them for their bad behavior And the case for refuting them: 1) Protecting our investment and newcomer's - by reassuring the newcomers so they don't panic and sell based on BS 2) Protecting the thread - if BS is allowed to prevail, no one will come here for info 3) They aggravate us, and we need to return the favor occasionally, especially when the stock is down Lately, I am in refute-mode, as you can tell. I apologize to those who are in mute-mode. All I can say to them is, I'll be a mute again some day, so show at least as much patience for me as you do for the RoRo's.