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The Mount Rainier Technical Group is an industry organization that has defined a defect managed format for standard CD-RW media. The format is named CD-MRW (Mount Rainier RW).
Mount Rainier enables native OS support of data storage on CD-RW. This makes the technology far easier to use and allows the replacement of the floppy. This is done by having defect management in the drive, by making the drive 2k addressable, by using background formatting, and by standardizing both command set and physical layout. The new standard is promoted by Compaq, Microsoft, Philips, and Sony and is supported by 38 industry leaders: OS vendors, PC-OEM's, ISV's, chip makers, and media makers.
- How this will come in the market?
With new recorders under the "CD-MRW" code name. These new CD-MRW ("M" is short for "Mt. Rainier") disc drives include defect management, and address the disk interchange problem by specifying the UDF format for use on CD-RW disks to ensure a standard for disk interchange between different computer systems. To take advantage of these new features, the drive requires a new type of software to support CD-RW media.
- In which RW format can be used?
Mt. Rainier can be used in both 1-4x and 4-10x (HS-RW) formats. The file system of the Mt. Rainier format would be, UDF 1.02 or 2.01.
- What's new?
The Mount Rainier project has 5 key elements:
- Physical defect management by the drive
- Logical write-addressing at 2k
- Background formatting
- Command set implementation
- Compatibility and standards-compliance
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_http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Articles/Specific.asp?ArticleHeadline=Mt.%20Rainier%20Forma t&Series=0
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