Mount Rainier for Linux 87
Cpyder writes: "Seems like Philips is getting the "patents are bad"-picture, as they have decided to let Linux support the Mount Rainier next-generation file device system. Seems like the end of floppies+zips+cdrw+whatever is finally in sight. Check it out at The Reg."
Software Burning Difficult? (or, YA Mac reference) (Score:4, Informative)
The Mount Rainier standard sounds nifty, even if the technology is still a couple of years out of wide consumer usage. But my only beef is this: does current CD-R(W) burning software for any platform have to be more complicated than the average computer user can handle?
Enter Apple's little-known Disc Burner software, and the Authoring Support software located under the hood in the system folder. The basic premise? Put a blank CD in and Disc Burner asks for a format (either hybrid ISO/HFS, Audio, or just plain vanilla ISO), and voila, on your desktop, is an icon of your CD. Drag-n-Drop to your heart's content, and then select "Burn CD" from the Special menu (or drag the CD to the trash, then asking you to burn the CD. Even I never have understood the user interface issues with dragging a disk to the trash to eject it). Done. Simple. My cat can even burn CDs now.
The moral of the story? Mount Rainier will be an easily applied standard across all platforms. But who said the current technology's software had to be difficult? Granted, Disc Burner is not Mount Rainier, but it definitely is a current and usable facsimile of the technology.
Details on CD-MRW / Mt. Rainier (Score:5, Informative)
TiVo? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Software Burning Difficult? (or, XP reference) (Score:2, Informative)
Here is what happens when i insert a blank CDR in the disc drive.
Windows can perform the same action each time you insert a disk or connect a device with this kind of file:
blank CD
What do you want windows to do
1 Open writable CD folder using Windows explorer
2 take no action
Select if you want a default action to occur
Personally I dont use the built in software because I have other hapits but just to see if it could work I created a shortcut to the CDDRIVE and placed the shortcut on the desktop then dragged and dropped music files to the shortcut and lo and behold they were waiting to be burned. To do the actual burning I opened the shortcut and selected write these files to CD.
bobs your uncle
Now on to CDRW if the media costs come down and preformatted disks are cheap and they dont damage easily then I would probably use more of them. My own experience is they dont hold up as well to general everyday use...
ymmv
Re:Confused (Score:5, Informative)
The big point here really is: This would have created a lucrative business for Mount Rainier licensees in selling preformatted MR media
So in any case, any OS could have operated on MT CD-RW (as far as I understood that), but it was the formatting that was blocked.
Hope that helps,
Alex
Re:Why is this great? (Score:2, Informative)
Alex
Re:IBM (Score:4, Informative)
BTW, everyone keeps spelling it 'Phillips'. There is only one 'L'.
Reinventing the wheel? (Score:5, Informative)
Also, I'm not sure I even like the idea of this becoming the "default" behavior for CD writers. I strongly dislike the overhead involved in formatting. I find that a packet writing CD-R/RW hold about 100MB less. I'd rather have the full capacity. I mean, if you are using this thing for business backup (which seems to be the primary argument for needing Linux support) then you are only going to be burning once a day, so why not just burn a full 650/700MB worth of data as a single data track?
- JoeShmoe
Sounds a lot like FTL... (Score:3, Informative)
Funny how this idea comes around - FTL, LVM, and now Mt. Rainier. Similar concepts, different applications.
Re:This might have very bad effects. (Score:2, Informative)
Whereas Apple maintained a stranglehold on their hardware to keep it out of the hands of cloners and now command an impression 5-10% of the computer market.
Re:This might have very bad effects. (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.burnallgifs.org/
Re:Finally someone has some sense... (Score:1, Informative)
Which they already own for about 50%.