Thanks for the info. I'd be happy with 4.7G. That would be a lot of room for me! "Eric \"Shubes\"" wrote: keith smith wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > I bought a dell to convert to a LAMP development box and it came with a > NEC DVD+-RW. > > I was looking for DVD's and found DVD+RW and DVD-RW. Seems most were > 4.7Gig. > I was thinking a DVD would hold around 8Gig. Dual layer is 8G. > What I would like to do is formate the blank DVD disks and use them to > do backups. I used to do this with rewritable CD's. Formating would > actually put a file system on them and they would act like a floppy. > > I'm not sure which DVD's to buy that would be compatible with my drive > and be able to format to work like a floppy or zip disk. I don't think it would matter, as your drive apparently handles either (+/-). I don't know how dual layer relates to +/- and RW though. I expect that someone here will clarify this. > Any help is much appreciated. > Keith > > > Keith Smith > A link from my website to yours > Submit Your Metro Phoenix Website > -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss Keith Smith A link from my website to yours Submit Your Metro Phoenix Website --------------------------------- Cheap Talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates.