Re: floppy disk bad sectors

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:02

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Andrue Cope [TeamB] wrote:

>Boba wrote:
>
>> How do i r/w a CD?
>
>Oh, I missed the 'w' bit there.
>
>Writing to a CD is very, very different to writing to a floppy disk. If
>you are trying to verify that a blank CD can be written to then I don't
>think you can.

Would CreateFile with GenericWrite fail if the cd were read-only
instead of writable?

> The nature of CDs makes that impossible unless they are
>rewriteable and even then I don't know if they can be written to at low
>level like 'traditional' media.

What about a CD-rw formatted for "packet writing"?

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