On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> I am not clear on what a cdrw disk is. I used to write CDW drivers for Kodak,
> mainly for the PhotoCD Project. I do know that CDs can only be written to
> once. Furthermore, there is a limitation on the number of times you can write
> to the CD. The first track of the CD contains information on where all the
> files are. This way the reader does not have to scan the whole cd to see what
> files are on the disk, just the first track. There are a fixed number of slots
> in this track to contain file information. If I rememebr correctly, there are
> 99 of these slots. Each time you write to the CD, the effort takes up one slot,
> describing what was written and what, if anything was deleted, replaced, etc.
>
Re-Writeable CD. Eraseable/Re-Writeable. For a finite number of
re-writes. :-)
John
