[H-GEN] dvds

[Christopher Biggs]

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Hilton Travis <QuarkComputers at email.com> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> 
> On a Windoze box, there is no difference between a CD-ROM and a DVD-ROM
> drive for CD playing, ripping and etc.  I assume this is the same under
> Linux.

In fact, at the hardware level, DVDs simply add extra commands to the
SCSI-3 MMC-2 command set which is used by all SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROM
devices (and CDRW etc.).

So a DVD should be backwards compatible with CD-ROM.

cjb

p.s. All statements in this message are based on reading of the
standards documents, and any resemblance to actual products, shipping
or defunct is purely coincidental and unintentional.


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