On Dec 30, 2003, at 7:34 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer asked: > Whenever I write a session on a CD re-writable it creates an icon. If > I've recorded three different sessions on the CD, when I insert the CD > into the drive three separate icons, one for each session, show up on > the > desktop.
Perhaps, depending on the hardware and software you use. You are creating multi-volume CDs. These contain several writing sessions stored as separate volumes, meaning each has its own directory. Some software, such as Toast Titanium and CDRecord, can create multi-session CDs, which appear to the reader to contain only one directory, but can be written in several sessions. These will give only one icon. Not every recorder can burn multi-session disks, but all can burn multi-volume disks. Not all CD-ROM software drivers can interpret them properly and not all drives can read them. Older Apple and Windows CD-ROM drivers seem to see only the first session. They work okay with X. You can't make a multi-session CD with standard Macintosh format (HFS/HFS+). You can make one with ISO-9660 format, which is the standard cross platform format for CDs. I've written such disks, and they aren't worth the nuisance to create, unless there's a really good reason. > Is there a limit to the number of sessions I can write on one CD? Other > than the data limit of the CD? Theoretically, no. But, not all drives and drivers can handle the really complicated directories when you get lots of sessions. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
