[haiku-development] Re: Demo CD

Urias McCullough wrote:

On 05/03/2008, Thom Holwerda <slakje@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

May I note that AFAIK, those mini CDs do not work in slot-loading
 drives, which are used quite often these days on laptops.

 I'm not sure about that one, but something to keep an eye on.


Are you positive?

I can't speak for the "e-card" style discs (with the straight edges) -
but I do know that the small audio CDs worked in my slot-loading car
CD player like 10 years ago - as it pulled the disc in, it centered it
automatically and worked just fine.

I can't imagine that slot-loading CD players haven't continued to use
this method since then - and since all regular tray-loading CD players
*still* support these small discs, I can't see how they are simply
impossible to use by the slot-loading players.



Just tried with my MacBook and... go with the 120mm ones :-)
Note: my MacBook is the first generation with the Superdrive (what's so Super in it?) that doesn't support DVD-RAM. Don't know about the newer ones, but being able to load 80mm discs requires a dedicated mechanism, which probably doesn't fit into a laptop unit. 

Regards,

Gabriele

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