on 8/6/03 9:54 AM, Bruce Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 05:11 PM, Byron Gardner wrote: > >> Has anybody tried burning a small size CDROM on a Beige DT with a CD >> RW/R >> installed? I have a generic burner that will take(has a small diameter >> tray >> place) a small RW CD and Toast recognizes it. When I tried to burn it, >> it >> got 3/4 of the way through and the Toast got "stuck" and nothing. >> Ejected >> the CD and it looks like it was burned partially but had to reboot >> eventually. OS X and 266 speed. > > They ought to work; most likely the disk was bad or Toast just barfed. > Possibly the drive doesn't like that brand of disks, perhaps you tried > to burn it too fast. > > Did Toast report it as having a smaller volume size? > > The problem with small CD-R's are purely mechanical; they're poison to > slot-loading drives, but the small disc has been a part of the CD spec > since the beginning...it's why your CD drive has an indent for disks > that size. The size of the disk is recognized mechanically by the drive.
Thanks for the reply. Toast recognizes the small CD (CD Jr.?) as the proper size of 210 MB. I tried to burn twice with my internal drive and both times major crash but no burn. :-) Now my CD Burner is "Toast". Dead in the water. I am installing the original CD 24X as I type this and it is working well so the CD Burner I guess is fried. I hear that Best Buy and some office stores are selling a Cendyne (sp?) CDRW for pretty cheap and that they will work in a Beige G3. I guess I will now go that route. Don't know if it was the CD Jr or the burner. Byron -- 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
