Yamaha CD Recordable/Rewritable Drive CRW-F1SX Owner's Manual - page 50

Technical Notes

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CD-MRW (CD Mount Rainier ReWriting)

This method is a new standard of packet writing for a CD-RW disc and supports 

defect control by the drive, background formatting, and disc ejecting during 

formatting. It enables you to use a CD-RW disc like a floppy disk.

Formatting a CD-RW disc using CD-MRW reduces its storage capacity by about 150MB 

since CD-MRW itself requires exclusive disc space.

Constant Linear Velocity (CLV)

The disc rotation speed is adjusted to keep the data transfer rate constant while 

writing/reading data.

Constant Angular Velocity (CAV)

The data transfer rate is adjusted to keep the disc rotation speed constant while 

writing/reading data. The Full CAV method employs CAV all through data writing/

reading.

Partial CAV

The CAV method is employed for inner tracks of a disc and the CLV method for 

outer tracks while writing/reading data.

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