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Re: How to use dmsetuup?



On 11/4/23 23:15, David Christensen wrote:
On 11/4/23 17:55, gene heskett wrote:

FWIW the rw's I have and that continue to work, are Sony DVD+RW, well over 5 years old now. I understand there is a DVD-RW but I've no experience with them.  Today my objection is the size. In comparison to a system driving 3d printers with gcode from Cura-5.4 that is not rolled up into subroutine loops, I have some of the more complex and large parts part files that will not fit on a dvd. So it simply impractical for me to back up to a measly 4.7Gig dvd.


That's why they invented Blu-ray:

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray

     25 GB (single-layer)
     50, 66 GB (dual-layer)
     100, 128 GB (BDXL)
     (Up to four layers are possible in a standard form BD)


David

Shudder. Anything mechanical can be destroyed by a smoke particle 100x to small to be seen with a good eye. I am a CET & Electronics in general I understand the physics of, and in electronics the only thing moving is a few electrons here or there. As long as the voltage does not force an electron thru the oxide layer that is the capacitors insulation, forming a leakage path that avalanches thru the oxide film and essentially destroys the device, there is no physical reason that it will not continue to do its jobs for hundreds or thousands of years. It will be external environmental effects that will eventually reach the chip and byproducts of the humidity let in by the breach of the package sealing that finally destroys it.

The size of a bit that is detectable on a disk is determined by the wavelegth of the light reading that bit, cd's were designed with the IR lasers of the day, which emmit light in the 1100 nanometer range. Far infrared IOW. DVD's were made possible with a shorter visible light laser, then blue rays got that down to abut 400 nanometers. The next gen of those will have a uv laser but we'll have to invent it first. But part of that problem is that decent optical glass for the lenses does not pass UV to a usable amount. Plastic lets it blast on thru but can we make plastic lenses that precisely for the price bleeding edge users will pay? IDK.
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Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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