Mount Rainier is a standard that provides background formatting and defect
management for
storage on
CD-RW and
DVD+RW. This makes rewritable
discs
easier to use and allows the replacement of the floppy. On Mount Rainier
CD-RW and DVD+RW drives you can
drag-and-drop files to the RW
disc and the real formatting of the disc is done in the background (invisible to the user). Also,
if there are scratches on the disc the drive will recognize this and will
replace the bad areas.
Also called Mount Rainier Writing (MRW).
