On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 8:46 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 2:14 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: > >>MMM, I dont know about this Finalize thing. I use Nero for Winbloz and > >> I do NOT have to finalize a cd in order to read it on another machine > >> w/o Nero. I can even see the files in Linux boxes no problem. > >>Just my 2 cents on this issue. > > > >Nero definitely has a place to specify whether a disk is finalized or > > not. I > > >can't comment on whether the disks are readable elsewhere - I only > > know that > > >others have found this not to be so. > > > >Anne > > Actually it's a mite more complicated than that. > > Audio discs do not have to be fixed in order to play on a good modern > computer > but data cd's do.but an unfixed audio disc will not play on a regular cd > player. > > Data discs have to be fixed but they don't necessarily have to be fixed all > over the cd, it depends. So you could have a data disc that you fix the > written > portion of, and leave the rest of the disc unfixed, then add some more data > files at a later date and fix those and so on.
Are you sure about this, John? I have always understood that fixating closed the disk. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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