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by rightbyte 2017 days ago
Would that work for CDs too?
2 comments

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. :)
I don't think so, CDs have a spiral track, so the spiral would also have to be reversed.
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.