(Repost at the special request by Eric Gisin)

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Mike Richter, were you born with
"Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
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Mike Richter spewed (11/7/07):
Like this one, Mikey?

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Mike Richter's Cockamamie Mumbo Jumbo on UDF (inherent)
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This is Mikey's response to the question why Roxio's DirectCD causes
Win2k system unstable:

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From: Mike Richter
Date: 6/27/01
Subject: What is Responsible for Packet Writing Instability?

There is an inherent problem in UDF, particularly with
fixed-length packets

It is that the directory information for the disc is held and
modified in RAM between loading the disc and ejecting it.

Anything which precludes a complete, valid package being written
back risks the whole disc.
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In the case of the UDF as implemented by DirectCD, the directory is not
held in ram until the disc is ejected -- supposedly the inherent problem
of UDF:

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From: DeepOne
Date: 7/9/00
Subject: CD-RW Disc broken on DirectCD

Mike Richter (Acraptec Shit) crapped:
I don't believe this is true with the latest versions of
DirectCD (I'm using 2.5d with Win98SE).

I've watched the disc write lights on my Plextor drives when
ejecting a DirectCD CD-RW disc, and the drive never does any
writing at that time.

Once, in an attempt to prove this, I wrote a bunch of files to
a DirectCD CD-RW disc. As soon as the write pulses ceased,

I pressed the computer's RESET button.

After the computer restarted, the CD-RW disc was fine, and
all the files I had just written were fully accessible.
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Mike Richter, were you born with
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