On Saturday May 1, 2004, Bruce Johnson wrote: > At 10:24 PM -0400 04/30/2004, GDB-2mosMDK92 wrote: >> Yamaha CDRW drive in my beige G3 DT. >> Is there any native software than can be used to test the burning >> capabilities of the drive? What about erasing a CDRW? > > "native"? > > Roxio's Toast. > CharisMac's Discribe. > Apple's Disc Burner. > > Toast is $$. > > Discribe is $ and downloadable, but comes with a free trial.
and is largely crap from all the reports I hear. > > Disc Burner is free, but it only supports a few drives. Actually as of 10.2.6 it supports a large number of drives. In OS X run Apple System Profiler; if the drive is listed as "Disk Burning Fully Supported" then it should work, pop in a blank CD and it should ask you what to do with it. Choose open in finder, and you can drag files to it, then burn the disk (one session only, it closes the disk) in Finder by ejecting it. You can get CD Session BUrner <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14768> to do multisession discs. There's also BurnX a free alternative: <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22147> > -- "Wherever you go, there you are." - B. Banzai, Ph.D. Bruce Johnson Okay, well I found out it is fully supported and did a test burn using Disc Burner and it worked just fine. Doesn't appear to be bootable though. Thanks to all who replied. -- Just a message from Doug... -------------------------------------------- http://users.adelphia.net/~slugg0/index.html -- 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
