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	Phase-change Dual - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Much like CD-RW, PD uses a phase change layer that can be overwritten in a single pass of the read/write head.
		A PD disc has a capacity of 650 MB, can be rewritten 500,000 times and is enclosed in a protective cartridge.
		PD discs are compatible with PD drives, first generation Panasonic DVD-RAM drives and Multi CD-R recorders while PD drives can read and write PD discs as well as read CD-ROMs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/PD_drive (124 words)

	Setting up and using a MicroSolutions Backpack pd/cd Drive
		The pd drive can be used as a hard drive (the cartridges can be rewritten over a million times), or as a backup device (the cartridges are supposed to have a shelf life of 30 years).
		I can then unmount the pd drive, mount the same physical device as a cd-rom, transfer individual rpm packages to the hard drive, and then remount the pd drive and install them on /usr using rpm.
		The drive is not blindingly fast (it took over 2.5 hours to do a 700M installation of Red Hat 5.2 using the cd-rom and my 486 desktop), but on machines with slower processors I don't think the speed of the drive represents a severe bottleneck.
	www.er.uqam.ca /nobel/r10735/pdcdrom.html (1016 words)

	Section Front: External Storage
		The LS-120 drive is a variation of a short-lived drive technology known as the floptical drive, in that it uses a laser, but not to read or write data to the disk surface.
		One drawback to the PD drives is that while the drives will read CD-ROM discs, the recording media is not a CD, it's a cartridge that can only be read by another PD drive.
		The first generation drives held data in one layer on one side of the disc - total capacity 4.7 GB and although all DVD drives are supposed to read CD-ROM discs as well, these first-generation drives are unable to read discs recorded on CD-R (recordable) or CD-RW (rewritable) drives.
	www.computerwriter.com /archives/1998/sf042398.htm (2425 words)

	WinMag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The drive uses a SCSI interface, and the SCSI ID is set by adjusting the jumper switches on the back of the drive.
		Once the device was installed, Windows 95 automatically detected both the CD-ROM drive and the PD drive, performed a complete setup and provided separate drive icons for each.
		Using approximately 266MB worth of various file types and sizes, it took 34 minutes to copy data to the PD drive and 4 minutes 50 seconds to copy it back to the hard drive, resulting in a write transfer rate of 130KBps and a read transfer rate of 917KBps.
	www.winmag.com /library/1997/0301/winla141.htm (554 words)

	MacPeak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If you usually wait on a drive or CD often, and for several seconds or more each time, caching makes a noticeable difference in how quickly you move from task to task, and how responsive your Macintosh 'feels'.
		If you change data on your drive that is also in the System cache, the cached version is thrown away instead of being updated.
		Data in the RapidTrak™ PD cache is updated when it is changed on the drive.
	www.macpeak.com /cache.html (512 words)

	Plasmon Data Makes Dual-Function PD/CD Drive More Attractive with New Lower Prices; Offers Unique Notebook-Ready Version
		These versatile drives, which are available in both external and internal configurations, record to 650MB rewritable optical disks using phase-change technology and read all standard CD-ROMs at 4X speed.
		This drive offers notebook users a fast CD-ROM drive, plus a convenient, fast and cost-effective solution to their backup needs.
		PD/CD drives are ideal for a wide range of applications, including graphics, engineering, scientific, desktop publishing, multimedia development and display, plus interactive presentations.
	www.plasmon.com /news/prspdcd.html (576 words)

	Removable Storage
		PD cartridges with 650 MB now are down to 1300 Yen and sometimes even can be found for 1000 Yen.
		While the drive itself is expensive, the media are cheap and reliable, you also can use it as a DVD-ROM reader, a CD-ROM drive, and a PD drive, and it offers direct access unlike a tape drive.
		A program coming with the drive offers automatic copying of specified files (or directories), another program offers automatic execution of programs when the cartridge with the respective program is inserted, and you also can copy music CD tracks to PD or DVD cartridges for playing through the computer.
	www.tokyopc.org /newsletter/1998/11/remstore.html (870 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		By default, the driver will autoprobe for a single parallel port IDE drive, but if their individual parameters are specified, the driver can handle up to 4 drives.
		The behaviour of the pd driver can be altered by setting some parameters from the insmod command line.
		Set this to 0 to choose the master drive, 1 to choose the slave, -1 (the default) to choose the first drive found.
	ftp.linux.org.uk /pub/people/viro/pd.c (882 words)

	Type PD-3 Reduction Drive
		National RF’s Type PD-3 reduction drive with indicator provides a velvet smooth 6 to1 reduction that may be used to drive tuning capacitors or control potentiometers.
		The drive is of the planetary design, similar to those made by the Jackson Brothers.
		A clear acrylic indicator with an inscribed fl line is mounted to the drive shaft, thus allowing the user to put a custom calibration scale behind the indicator.
	www.nationalrf.com /reduction.htm (166 words)

	CameraHobby - Vosonic X-Drive Pro VP300 Digital Wallet Review
		An entry-level notebook with a decent sized hard drive can be a mere few hundred more than the largest capacity digital wallets and you get a large, high quality screen, keyboard and usually a CD burner to go with that hard drive.
		Hard drives spin at high revolutions, generating heat and that heat has to be dissipated somehow and somewhere.
		In a desktop computer, there is physical space around the hard drive, as well as fan units to draw in and circulate cool air over the heat generating components while expelling the hot air.
	www.camerahobby.com /Digital_DigitalWallet.htm (7683 words)

	Goodyear Polyurethane Belts : Frequently Asked Questions
		Eagle Pd Acculinear is available in open-end rolls as well as in spliced endless belts.
		Yes, the Eagle Pd Acculinear belt is available in several special constructions with various hardness and thickness values.
		Yes, when the design process is completed, the Drive Design Program presents a 'recommendation report', which can then be emailed to yourself or to others.
	www.goodyearindustrialproducts.com /polyurethanebelts/faqs.html (1436 words)

	Drive Letter Problems under NT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This document details a procedure used to re-assign drive letters under Windows NT 4 for removable media devices, that cannot be dealt with by the Disk Administrator utility.
		Such devices affected are Iomega ZIP drive, Jaz drive, PD drive.
		This drive letter cannot be changed with NT's Disk Administrator which means that the assigned letter could interfere with other assignments that are required, e.g.
	www.gre.ac.uk /~hc03/technical/driveletters/driveletters.html (607 words)

	Phase-change drives can the way you back up data
		Phase-change drives originally were supposed to be cheaper than CD-R drives, but lately magneto-optical and CD-R products have come down so much in price that the difference isn't as great as anticipated.
		So if you use PD for backup, you're in the same boat as a tape backup user whose only drive breaks down --you have the backup but can't do anything with it.
		Whether the shortage of compatible drives is a significant disadvantage to you depends partly on whether your organization can afford duplicate PD drives--remember, you could buy two for the cost of a single CD-R drive.
	www.gcn.com /15_11/news/31636-1.html (574 words)

	Prisoner's Dilemma
		The PD is usually thought to illustrate conflict between individual and collective rationally, but the multiple player form (or something very similar) has also been interpreted as demonstrating problems within standard conceptions of individual rationality.
		In deference to Hume, Skyrms and Vanderschraaf refer to this kind of asynchronous PD as the "farmer's dilemma." It is instructive to picture it in a tree diagram.
		Many of the situations that are alleged to have the structure of the PD, like defense appropriations of military rivals or price setting for duopolistic firms are better modeled by an iterated version of the game in which players play the PD repeatedly, retaining access at each round to the results of all previous rounds.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/prisoner-dilemma (14078 words)

	Re: Problems with ZIP drive
		I bought it a year and > half ago, and the disk is released and retaken often in the middle of the > read process, causing the computer to hang (this is the "click of death", > right?).
		In my humble opinion, a PD driver is better than MO because when you buy that you get a fast CD-ROM drive too, but you can put only a PD or only a CD in that drive in the same time.
		But in my PD drive, the transfer rate is high and the acess time is very low, you can get the short files quickly using PD drive when you need to wait some SECONDs to get short files in normal fast CDROM drive.
	www.mail-archive.com /msx@stack.nl/msg00442.html (286 words)

	PD Cam Drive Belts
		The facing of the pulley side of the PD cam drive belt is a specially woven fabric that has been chemically treated to reduce pulley friction.
		The Goodyear PD cam drive belt backing is compounded with Goodyear's exclusive Wingprene synthetic rubber.
		* PD cam drive belts by Goodyear are designed to deliver precise timing over a long service life in demanding automotive cam applications.
	www.goodyearbeltsandhose.com /truck/pdcam.html (226 words)

	Linux - Optical Disk HOWTO : Phase Change Optical Technology
		This drive was installed on a PC compatible AMD 100MHZ 486 with an Adaptec 1542C SCSI bus-master controller.
		If while using the PD for writing, You find that the file you just wrote to the disk are not there, chances are that the disk write protect tab is in write protect mode and you mounted it in read/write mode.
		This is because I did not have the optical media installed in the drive and the driver was attempting to look at the partition table to determine the block size.
	www.tldp.org /HOWTO/Optical-Disk-HOWTO-7.html (1465 words)

	Quick Byte (InfoWorld)
		I transferred 1MB of 77 unfragmented files to a half-full PD cartridge in a little less than 12 seconds, about 5MB per minute.
		For Backpack to shine as a hard drive, you need to use an enhanced parallel port, which MicroSolutions says results in a performance improvement of about 83 percent.
		As a CD-ROM drive, Backpack's two-speed rotation works for routine data storage and for accessing installation CD-ROMs, but users will find it marginal for multimedia titles and full-motion video.
	www.infoworld.com /cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/97/12/rquick2a.dat.htm (322 words)

	Micro Solutions, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If the backpack appears in the Devices screen, but no drive letter is assigned to the backpack drive, uncheck the Enable LPT Interrupts and uncheck Enable I/O Bus Speed Control under Backpack Finder's 'Finder Settings' located under Control Panel.
		Be sure that any other CD-ROM drives which you might still be using on your computer have 32-bit driver support for Win95/98, so that removing MSCDEX will not affect any pre-existing CD-ROM drives.
		Select SETTINGS and change the START and END DRIVE LETTER to another drive letter that you are sure is not in conflict with the drive letters of other devices.
	www.micro-solutions.com /support/docs/2211.asp (414 words)

	Lexar PD-128-231 128 MB JumpDrive Portable USB Flash Drive - Electronics
		It didn't always work on the first try plugging it in to the USB slot (and sometimes took several tries before it died), but this time it was done.
		These things are all risky, and make sure you have the important data stored somewhere else, so when it dies, it won't be a huge problem.
		As with any backup or transporting drive, do not have files only on the media.
	www.electronicspatron.net /B00006I5FQ.html (383 words)

	Goodyear Power Transmission Products: Synchronous Belts
		Synchronous belts are amazingly versatile with possible applications on drives up to 600 hp and from speeds under 100 feet per minute to over 6,000 feet per minute.
		Positive Drive, or Pd™, is the term applied by Goodyear to synchronous belts and their method of power transmission.
		As the name indicates, Pd belts make possible power transmission that is efficient and accurate to a precise degree.
	www.goodyearindustrialproducts.com /powertransmission/products/moresync.html (540 words)

	ZOOM PD-01 Power Drive
		The Zoom is just compressed enough, has a very tubey sound, a good amount of drive (although the drive controls are strange in their increments as everybody else has said), and it is incredibly clear and smooth.
		With the drive ALL THE WAY DOWN it is a clean boost pedal like an MXR Microamp but with bass and treble controls.
		Also apparent was the dynamic quality of the PD. Both the TS-9 and the DD compressed the shit out of the signal at most gain settings but the PD allowed the nuances of my picking to come through.
	www.harmony-central.com /Effects/Data/ZOOM/PD_01_Power_Drive-01.html (12784 words)

	BYTE.com
		Panasonic expects a complete PD drive kit to retail for less than $1000 and appear sometime this quarter.
		NEC Technologies has said it will use PD drives in a line of multimedia PCs to be sold in Japan.
		The PD laser mechanism is similar to that of a standard CD-ROM drive.
	www.byte.com /art/9502/sec4/art6.htm (608 words)

	Compaq PD drive : Read reviews and compare prices at Ciao.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This new versatile optical drive combines the functions of a CD-ROM drive and a fast, easy-to-use back-up device.
		It uses rewritable 650 MB PD discs to store data files, and it...
		PD drive, Compac drive, Kompaq drive, Compak drive, Combaq drive, Compac PD drive, Kompaq PD drive, Compak PD drive, Combaq PD drive
	www.ciao.co.uk /Compaq_PD_drive__5398603 (215 words)

	Linux and parallel port IDE devices
		The ditto family of external tape drives use the ISA replicator to interface a floppy disk controller, which is then connected to a floppy-tape mechanism.
		If one were to open up a parallel port CD-ROM drive, for instance, one would find a standard ATAPI CD-ROM drive, a power supply, and a single adapter that interconnected a standard PC parallel port cable and a standard IDE cable.
		As an example, lets assume that you have a MicroSolutions PD/CD drive with unit ID number 36 connected to the parallel port at 0x378, a SyQuest EZ-135 connected to the chained port on the PD/CD drive and also an Imation Superdisk connected to port 0x278.
	cyberelk.net /tim/parport/paride.html (2252 words)

	Web Page Hosting : pd : PHP \| JSP \| JAVA \| WebSite \| Web Page \| Web Host (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		drives based on chips supported by the paride module.
		The behaviour of the pd driver can be altered by setting
		scanner assumes that the drives are numbered sequentially from 0.
	www.oxxus.net /source/unix/source-pd.htm (845 words)

	hd(HW), SCO OpenServer Product Family Release 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bits 7 and 6 of the minor device number specify the physical drive number; bit 5 is set to 0 (zero); bits 4 and 3 specify the partition; and bits 2, 1, and 0 specify the division.
		The drive configuration test failed because the drive status block was not available.
		A drive could not be opened because the physical device corresponding to the minor device number was not present.
	www.ifthenfi.nl:8080 /cgi-bin/ssl_getmanpage?hd+HW+OS5+wd (2266 words)

	Windows NT: PD drive and NTFS
		I use a pd drive from panasonic (cd rewriteable cartridge, phase changer) on Windows NT 4.0 SP2 + Kernel Hotfix.
		The head of the drive is constantly moving, there is a moving for every little file.
		The problem obviously is within the driver panasonic have with their drive.
	www.experts-exchange.com /Operating_Systems/WinNT/Q_10010178.html (270 words)

	PD_NF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For example: That you have a 20 gig hard drive with one partition C:, you will then be saving all data in the same drive as your Operating System and your Programs.
		But if you partitioned the drive into two partitions C: and D:, you could then use C: for your OS and Programs and use D: for your data.
		This way if you ever need to reformat and reinstall or update your OS, your data would be left untouched in partition D: A 5gig partition would be ideal for C: and the rest of the drive space for D:, this will also make running Scan Disk and Disk Defragmenter much easier.
	homepage.eircom.net /~greatersites/gs2/pd_nf.htm (149 words)

	David Hume - Essays [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		This first appeared as essay 2 in PD (1752) under the title "Of Luxury" and renamed in EMPL Part 2 (1760).
		However, an exception to this is the Royally-backed practice in Great Britain of forcefully conscripting sailors; more liberty would in fact result from a violent usurpation of this law.
		This first appeared as essay 10 in PD (1752) and is the longest of Hume's essays.
	www.iep.utm.edu /h/humeessa.htm (6456 words)

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