What is Mt. Rainier?

[Hi Ho]

What is it? I have been hearing about it with regards to DVD burners. As far as I know Mt. Rainier is the mountain that could blow me away some day if I'm in the wrong place at the wrong time. (like Orting where I was this weekend) :)

[bailey]

this should answere your question

http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Articles/Specific.asp?ArticleHeadline=EasyWrite&Series=0

[Hi Ho]

Thank you for the info. So, what I understand is that it makes a CD more like a hard drive? It says no OS supports drag and drop. I do it all the time in XP. However, I am guessing that true drag and drop wouldn't require me to burn the CD after dragging and dropping rather it would burn as I go?

[bailey]

I realy don't know for sure. but what I do is to format a cdrw and then it will work just like a big flopy disk,
you can drag and drop to and from it all day long, send anything to it and reformat it over and over all you want.

you can think of it a a portable hard drive or flopy drive, it all works the same.

thats the main reason why I can't understand why anyone would even consider having a zip drive, these are much bigger and cheaper.

[RJ]

It says no OS supports drag and drop. I do it all the time in XP.

No OS supports it natively. If you install a 3rd party program, such as Ahead InCD, then you can use Mount Rainier.

I am guessing that true drag and drop wouldn't require me to burn the CD after dragging and dropping rather it would burn as I go?

Think of it as a hard drive. If you copy stuff on your hard drive via drag and drop, does it require you to click on some kind of menu item after you dragged and dropped ?

RJ

[glc]

Mt. Rainier is an advanced form of packet writing. It formats the CD-RW as you copy files to it instead of making you format the media first.

[bailey]

I thought xp can do that too

[RJ]

I thought xp can do that too

No. XP can't. You still need 3rd party tools for that.
Longhorn will be the first Windows OS to natively support MRW.
Although I heard that it should be included in XP SP2, I've tested it with the SP2 RC-1 and it wasn't included.

RJ

[Hi Ho]

I thought xp can do that too
You can drag and drop in XP but after that you have to click burn and it will burn everything at once. I think I understand it now. Thanks for the info. BTW, what makes a CD burner unable/able to use Mt. Rainier?

[RJ]

You can drag and drop in XP but after that you have to click burn and it will burn everything at once.

Yeah, but that is no Mt Rainier. With Mt Rainier the files will be written as soon as you dropped them. . .just like with a floppy and hard disk.
The Windows XP Drag&Drop is just like Nero Drag&Drop. .or any other burning software's Drag&Drop. Means you first collect your files, then you burn.
That is what has been included in XP, not Mt Rainier.

BTW, what makes a CD burner unable/able to use Mt. Rainier?

The burner has to be capable to use Mt Rainier in hardware. So it's not a software issue. If the burner can't do Mt. Rainier you can't upgrade it (but it could be that the burner does support MRW but the firmware doesn't, then a new firmware will fix that).
Since the development of CD has ended, every good CD burner supports it. If there are still CD burners that are not MRW capable, then they're just crappy brands that are not to be touched anyway.
With DVD burners it's unfortunately different, many do not include MRW yet. But the top brands, like Plextor, do.

RJ

[AlwaysUp]

RJ, Do you know weather or not LiteOn does, or is it a model specific thing?

[Hi Ho]

It is a model specific thing. Appearently all newer CD burners, except the really cheap ones, support Mt. Rainier. It's a different story for DVD burners.

[RJ]

RJ, Do you know weather or not LiteOn does, or is it a model specific thing?

LiteOn includes Mt Rainier since their 32x CD-burners.
Dunno about their DVD burners, though.

RJ