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 Basics

DVD-ROM Drive Technology - 43

Universal Disc Format (UDF) is a file system standard that 

supports both rewritable and write-once media. It is a 

cross-platform data format that allows transparent 

interchange of data via optical discs or CD-ROMs. UDF also 

defines methods for reading, writing and other operations. 

Discs that are read on a Mac OS-based computer may also be 

read on a DOS, UNIX or Windows based computer. The format 

can coexist with CD-ROM data format (ISO 9660) but also 

incorporates the International Standards Organization 

interchange standard for rewritable and write-once media 

(ISO 13346) thus providing support for CD-Recordable 

discs (CD-R).

Before UDF was available, every CD-Recordable drive used a 

proprietary format of writing data, which prevents the 

ability to interchange files. Fortunately, most drives