CD-RW Drive

From: Paul Kearns <paulk_at_microsoft.com>
Date: Sun Jan 31 19:45:32 1999

> I can get the cd drive to burn the CD & read from it, however it will not
> read
> on another standard CD drive.
 
You can't read CD-RW's in (most) regular CD players. You'll have to keep
burning coasters until it works right.
 
Make sure the disc is "finalized"; that is, make sure you tell your CDR
program that you're not going to write any more tracks to the disc (some
programs also call this "closing" a disc). Normal CD players can't read a
disc until it's been finalized.
 
Also, You mentioned DirctCD. Most normal CD players can't read discs
written using packet-writing technology -- you need to lay out an ISO 9660
image and blast the whole thing at once (or do it on the fly, which is just
a risky way of writing everything at once).
 
Someone also mentioned multi-session discs -- do avoid these, as the other
poster recommended.
 
> Thanks..
> Phil...
 
Paul Kearns
paulk_at_microsoft.com
Received on Sun Jan 31 1999 - 19:45:32 GMT