Yersinia wrote:
I just re-read the original post and 96 Mb of RAM in not enough! I have 192 Mb and I can't write a CD at all in OS-X and only at very low speed in OS 9.2.2. I use Discribe also, but I'm sure Toast is similar. I just got in 768 Mb of RAM from OWC for my B&W 400. As soon as the copy of Panther I bought arrives I will be giving it a shot on that machine. May install it on this beige G3 to see if it makes a difference in burning CDs.Neil writes,
<Hello Yersinia :-)>
Hiya, Neil. :-)
<If you insert a blank CD-R or CD-RW, Toast should just accept it and start the burn. It sounds like OS 9's built-in burning facility is getting in the way. I had to use the extension manager (and now use Conflict Catcher) to disable the OS's burning extensions and let Toast do its job because the OS burner didn't work.
Hang on a second....when you insert a blank disk, does it say
"This disc needs to be prepared for burning. Do you want to prepare this disk?"
along with a drop-down list of option? If it does then I believe it's the OS trying to handle the burning. Hopefully somebody else will chime in and correct me if I'm wrong (my experience with CD burners is with an external USB and internal IDE, and neither work unless I use Toast).>
1. Nope. If my OS 9.1 has a built-in CD burning facility, I have no knowledge of what it is, where it is or how to use it. Nothing in the Finder's menus suggests it, and there weren't any applications in the HD that seemed to suggest their purpose was making CDs. Another G-lister suggested it was there was a "Burn CD" function in the Finder's Special menu. I looked for it there (and checked the other Finder menus) and there isn't.
2. When I inserted a blank CD in my CDRW (more on that in a moment) before enabling Toast (giving it the files I wanted to save to CD and hitting "record" to make it burn), Toast would sit on this "Preparing..." phase which never ended even when I left the room for a couple of hours to watch a movie. When, last night, I tried the suggestion of another G-lister that I should enable Toast first and insert a CD only when Toast asked me to insert one, I actually almost succeeded in backing up one of my HDs to CD. "Waiting for Writer" and "Preparing..." took awhile but I got through those, it went through the burn process and only "died" in the "Finishing...." phase.
3. My CD burner is a Smart & Friendly 8020 external SCSI CDRW, not USB or IDE. According to Roxio's website which I checked, it's a Toast supported device, so I know I don't need to find any special drivers to use it.
And that, my friend, is where I'm at. I can ALMOST make a CD now. ;-) Thanks, though.
~Yersinia.
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