Re: CD-RW Requirements?
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 21:20:16 -0500, Marc Shapiro
<mshapiro@inetone.net> wrote:
>This is not specifically a Debian question, or even, really, a Linux
>question, but I don't know where else to ask.
>
>Why do CD-RWs have such ungodly system requirements?
>
>I was just looking at a CD-RW (24/10/40) that actually specified Linux
>compatability (Slackware, but a Linux driver is a Linux driver, I would
>guess). The box says that it requires a PII 350 MHz (500 MHz
>recommended for writing) and 64 MB of disk space (128 MB recommended for
>writing).
>
>My P 166 MHz desktop reads and writes to my IDE hard drive at
>considerably faster speeds, why can't it read and write to an IDE
>CD-RW? Is that kind of memory and processor speed REALLY required to
>run these things, and, if so, why?
Tee hee... See [OT] CD-R Requirements: Conspiracy (from a few days
ago) for the hardware reasons (CD-R manufacturers can't be arsed to
write proper firmware).
There is a software reason too... most people burn CDs in Windoze.
Nuff said.
Pigeon
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