My Reply follows quote. On 07/03/2004 13:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >I'm trying to figure out why this mac wont read a UDF formatted CD-RW disk I >have. > >I checked the control panel and all of the drivers are there to read the >disk, and the OS version (8.5) should be able to read them, correct? > >So that narrows it down to UDF being broken, or the machine not being able >to read CD-RW disks. > >As far as i know the machine has stock parts, and it reads normal CDs fine. > >Any advice (other than junking it, of course) is appreciated. ------------------- Conventional "wisdom" is that some older drives may have trouble reading disks "burned" by some newer drives. Something about the "pits" not being wide/deep enough to be seen by the older optics. I the discussions I have listened to, it is a bit of maybe, maybe not.
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