smh
08-15-2003, 11:06 PM
James Goldman wrote: OSTA Marketing Coordinator
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Mike Richter on Packet Writing Format (xii)
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"the fault is not with the software but with the format"
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From: Mike Richter (Roxio Shill)
Subject: Re: CD-RW Data Question
Date: 11/9/02
Yes, overwriting will work on a fixed-length packet disc until
it fails. However, that's likely to be sooner than you would
wish and the approach is at best foolish.
Writing 50 MB of data and ~13 MB session space means about ten
sessions on a disc. If you splurge fifty cents on a quality blank,
you are wasting - absolutely throwing away to no purpose at all -
a nickel's worth on each.
Hey, what difference does it make if the erasable goes bad
unexpectedly and all your data are lost? You've saved a nickel
a day. That's certainly worth more than those files, right?
Bottom line: what you "know" ain't so. It's advertising hype
having no relationship to the experience of those who have
tried using fixed-length packets.
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( BTW, have you ever communicated with OSTA about what you call the
inherent flakiness and fragility of fixed-length packet format?
Asking because you won't least a bit squeamish communicating with
Plextor and Andy McFadden, letting them know their errant ways --and
made that fact public. )
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Mike Richter on Packet Writing Format (xii)
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"the fault is not with the software but with the format"
=====================
From: Mike Richter (Roxio Shill)
Subject: Re: CD-RW Data Question
Date: 11/9/02
Yes, overwriting will work on a fixed-length packet disc until
it fails. However, that's likely to be sooner than you would
wish and the approach is at best foolish.
Writing 50 MB of data and ~13 MB session space means about ten
sessions on a disc. If you splurge fifty cents on a quality blank,
you are wasting - absolutely throwing away to no purpose at all -
a nickel's worth on each.
Hey, what difference does it make if the erasable goes bad
unexpectedly and all your data are lost? You've saved a nickel
a day. That's certainly worth more than those files, right?
Bottom line: what you "know" ain't so. It's advertising hype
having no relationship to the experience of those who have
tried using fixed-length packets.
=====================
( BTW, have you ever communicated with OSTA about what you call the
inherent flakiness and fragility of fixed-length packet format?
Asking because you won't least a bit squeamish communicating with
Plextor and Andy McFadden, letting them know their errant ways --and
made that fact public. )