FLYNN, Steve wrote:

>Interesting, althought I'd be a bit wary of it myself. I've never trusted
>any applications (Like the Adaptec EasyCD Creator) which allow you to drag
>and drop onto a CDRW - they never seem to work correctly, even though you'd
>think it was a fairly straightforward task...
>
>       -----Original Message-----
>       From:   Graham Watkins [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>       Sent:   Tuesday, January 29, 2002 8:41 AM
>       To:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>       Subject:        Re: [newbie] cd-rw
>
>       FLYNN, Steve wrote:
>
>       >Daft question, but what is UDF? I've never understood some of the
>odd types
>       >of CD you can create.
>       >
>
>       You have a point, Steve.  It's a pretty unreliable way of operating.  Deadly 
>slow when it does work and the CDs have been known to somehow "unformat" themselves, 
>on my system at least. However, for those of us on a limited budget it does at least 
>offer an easy way of backing up stuff and freeing up space on the hard drive.  Zip 
>drives have their problems too (The "click of death".) and they are much more 
>expensive than CDRWs.  Still I'm not so in love with it to have ever felt the need to 
>get it working under Linux.
>       
>

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Graham Watkins
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to me is a cat. (Kinky Friedman - Frequent Flyer)  





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