"Mt. Rainier(EasyWrite) compliant" CD-R drives?

[sethfp]

Some Cd-R drives are listed as being "Mt. Rainier(EasyWrite) compliant". Is this important?

[confus-ed]

Only if you want to use your CDR like a 'normal'/hard disk

http://www.mt-rainier.org/ for clarification

[sethfp]

Only if you want to use your CDR like a 'normal'/hard disk

http://www.mt-rainier.org/ for clarification

Would this make it possible to use EasyWrite to write with a non-Mount Rainier type drive?

"If you want to read a Mount Rainier disc on a drive that does not know about Mount Rainier you have to install a reader ('EasyWrite reader'; sometimes also called 'remapper'). A message will display on your monitor to indicate that a reader must ne installed. If you do not get such a message automatically, locate the message (HTML) manually on the Mount Rainier disc. The message gives you the following options:
- installing the reader that is available on the disc,
- downloading and installing the reader from the website of the software vendor.
If you install this reader you are able to read Mount Rainier discs with any drive."

[confus-ed]

Honestly ... I dunno !

But lots of drives can use 'packet writing' which is similar, but you need to format disks first & then as they 'get full', with Mt Rainer you don't have to, which is what I suspect you'll have to do, if you use a non compliant writer with a mt rainer 'compliant' app

[sethfp]

Some Cd-R drives are listed as being "Mt. Rainier(EasyWrite) compliant". Is this important?

Am still using my old 8x4x32 drive. Got it just when "buffer underrun protection" came out. Didn't want to spend extra for that tech. The 8x4x32 drive is a coaster maker due to this. Don't want to repeat that.