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Would that work for CDs too?

• duskwuff 6y ago
  It'd take some doing. You wouldn't be able to burn a CD-R backwards without some extra steps; a "blank" CD-R contains some data in the pregroove to identify it as a recordable disc and specify some parameters to the burner. A reverse-rotating drive wouldn't be able to read that data, since it'd be backwards. :)
• szc 6y ago
  I don't think so, CDs have a spiral track, so the spiral would also have to be reversed.
  • Doxin 6y ago
    Presumably if you'd also flip the phases on the head stepper and move any relevant endstops around you might be able to convince the drive to read disks inside-out. Fairly sure it'd immediately give up due to pregroove shenanigans but it's an amusing idea.