Hmmm ... it seems to me that a few days ago, when I copied a folder
to a CDRW, that the only way I got it to accept the data and eject,
was to select the Burn function. I may not be remembering correctly.
I can always try another one.
Dean
On Aug 6, 2005, at 11:45 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote:
No, that's backwards.
CDRW (Re-Writeable) can be used just like a giant floppy. You can
put files on, and delete them, and rename them, etc. But you don't
burn anything to a CDRW -- you just save or move files as though it
were any other kind of disk. But my understanding is that there are
all kinds of potential problems with CDRW (David Fenton was talking
about this a little while ago). I believe they are more error and
corruption-prone, and I believe also that the drivers which allow
reading and writing are not native to the OS. This means that a
CDRW you write on your computer may only be readable on another
computer if they're using the same packet writing software.
CDR, on the other hand, is essentially a write-once medium. It is
possible to burn to a CDR multiple times -- called different
sessions -- and then close the disk at the end, but you can only
add new data in a session, not delete existing. Speaking
personally, I have had difficulties with some CD drives not being
able to read multisession CDRs. It's entirely possible that these
were older drives and that this problem doesn't exist anymore --
but with blank CDRs going for about $0.25 each, I've never worried
about burning once and then throwing it away and burning a new one
when I wanted to add things.
Aaron.
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