On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 06:01 PM, Fred Stevens K2FRD wrote:
The Sony CD-R/RW to which I referred in my last tome now works as a CD-ROM only if I put in a CD which has already been burned. The USB 1.4.1 software which came with the Belkin USB PCI board seems to be supporting it, at least in read-only, and it shows on my desktop. But, if I put in a blank CD-RW disc, it won't recognize it and after several seconds of digestion and other considerations, it kicks it back out without showing it on my desktop.
You need to have either a version of Toast that works with your computer and drive (and even with Toast, I'm not sure you won't get the same result with a blank cdr/w) or Apple's Disk Burner software (which does do what you want: pop a blank disk in and have it mount as an empty disk to put files on) but that, iirc, requires OS 9. (and it may not recognize that new drive even then, though you can hack drivers for DIsk Burner)
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