On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 05:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I burned a CD-RW on my Blue & White G3 with Roxio Toast Titanium with > a LaCie > CD Burner. When I went to play it back it only could be read on some > of my > macs. > The ones that could see it were my B&W G3, 400mhz Imac DV. It could > not be > read in the CD-drives of my 500mhz G4 (with CD/DVD Rom drive-not a > burner), > Beige G3 desktop, Lombard laptop with DVD drive or Rev A Imac. Why > would > this be? Am I missing something that I should be doing in toast when > I burn > them? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance for > your > replies.
CDRW's, can only reliably be read in CDRW drives (pretty much the rule IIRC). I'll bet your iMac DV has one, too. CDR disks, on the other hand, should be readable in all of those drives once burned. Frankly, I'm mostly at a loss to explain the popularity of CDRW disks...they're expensive and slow, particularly if you want to re-write 'em...reformatting is really slow, ime. CDR disks are so cheap they're practically free, and I just burned a disk with 300 mb of stuff on it in < 4 minutes on a CDRW drive that cost me $39 after rebates. (Cendyne's 48-12-48 drive is an iTunes compatible Lite-On mechanism and is *fast*) Office Max has a special this week on a box of 200 32X CDR disks for $2.99 after rebates (1.5 cents apiece, you don't want to know how absurdly cheap per megabyte that is...), and I'm constantly seeing 25, 50 and even 100 packs in the Sunday ads for free or nearly so after rebates (Office Max, Office Depot, Best Buy, Circuit City, CompUSA, etc). Heck, even Ace Hardware sent me a coupon book in the mail this week that had a 25-pack of Fuji CDR disks for free after rebate. -- Wherever you go, there you are. Bruce Johnson -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
