Anne Wilson wrote:

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


Petty sure, as I say I have never got it to fix the data only on a linux programme, but
all of the windblows proggies can fix the data only amount ofa cd and leave the
rest of the blank cd open to add more .It's just a question of getting the right
option ticked . It goes, (from memory) something like fix data don't fix disc before
the final write begins.

I'm sure that roast can do it too, and cdrecord, but as I say I cannot get it to
work for me. Whenever I have tried it fixes the whole disc and I cannot add more.



John


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