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Multi-session CD's permit laying down data in more than one ``session''. A CD-ROM
drive supporting multi-session reading will read the last session only and refer to
the other sessions via its table of contents. The writer creates the last session and
points to the data in previous sessions by updating the table of contents for the
last session.
Old CD-ROM drives not supporting multi-session will only read the first
session. For maximum portability only lay down a disk image.
The term multi-session means that you write ``data-1'' to a CD-R,
then come back a few days later and write ``data-2'' to the same
CD-R. If you want to write to a CD in two pieces, e.g. you want to
write ``test'' to see if it works and then write ``data'', you must
quit Easy-CD-Creator after writing ``test'' and start it again. One can
arrange for the second session ``data'' to import the table of
contents of the first session ``test'' in this way.
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Physics Computing
2000-06-29