> > > Do you have a cd-rewriter in your pc? and is the ide-cdrom player able
> to
> > > read rewritable cd's?
> > > Then the answer is simple... Use a rewritable cd... (I do so with the
> > > megascsi and novaxis)
> >
> > Or use a once-writable CD. The transfer is probably a one-time thing,
> > right? And it's always a good to have a backup.
>
> Also possible!
> I used rewritable because I know for sure that these CD's I now have do
need
> a lot of cleanup...A lot of stuff is spread on two cd's. I clean up the
> files on pc and then write a new cd. Bij using a rewritable I can use the
> same cd again...
But rewritable CDs are only supported on newer CD drives (32x and faster)...
Older drives most of the time don't support them, including our computer's
CD 16x drive, the laptop of my father's work, the CD-drive of my uncle (6x),
the CD-drive of a friend of mine (24x), the CD-drive of another friend of
mine (4x), the CD-drive of another friend of mine, I'm getting repetative,
don't I?
That's why a CD-recordable is preferred I think. It's only a one-time thing,
you've got a backup (since you will probably erase a CD-RW, which is 10x as
expensive as a CD-R), most CD-recorders can burn CD-R's faster than CD-RW's
(or not at all); ours for example is a 4x2x6 burner, and a friend of mine
has a 4x burner (so no ReWriting nor reading!). And, as in fact already
said, it is highly likely that you will waste alot of time burning your
CD-RW because there is quite a chance your CD-Rom won't support it. Oh, and
did I already mention CD-R's are so cheap you could as well call them
'free'???
~Grauw
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