CD-ROM
Jon –
>>> a Kodak CD is analogous to single physical hard disk partitioned into
multiple logical partitions. <<<
Then your talking about multi-session Kodak disks. Watch out when reading ads,
as some of the older drives advertise as Kodak compatible, but they can only
read a single session recording.
I just bought the Sound Blaster 16ASP card with the double speed CD drive for
at home (yipee!! a new toy!), and it's multi-session compatible at the
electronics level, as well as XA-compatible (meaning it can play the combined
(interleaved) video/sound stuff). Not that there's much of that on the
market….
The cheap Mitsumi drive is also multi-session compatible, but will never be
XA-compatible because of it's electronics. Sony and Philips defined a pretty
tough spec, and it's a wonder that Mitsumi manages to trick the electronics
into reading Kodak disks. BTW, the drive from Kodak uses a similar trick. The
spec says that to read Kodak disks, the drive should be XA-compatible.
Steve