Keith,
Thanks to you and all who have asked and answered
questions above my low tech level.
Each burned image is pulled up and perused with no
noted glitches thus far.
Guess I'm satisfied.
Thanks all,
Jack
--- Keith Whaley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> John Whittingham wrote:
>
> >>And, where does one learn about that?
> >>Trial and error is expensive!
> >
> >
> > I would suggest some internet based research,
> Google search engine would make
> > a reasonable starting point.
> >
> > John
>
> Been there, done that, John.
> It's an absolute morass of disconnected bits and
> pieces of information,
> most
> written and compiled by the manufacturers of the
> discs themselves.
> There are apparently so many standards that apply to
> the manufacture for
> the
> various uses for CDs, there's little adherance to a
> "standard" that we
> can use to
> purchase general purpose discs.
> One person's general purpose is NOT some other
> person's general purpose.
> One wants his CDs only for recording music, and
> never even considers it for
> anything else. Why would he need a "data disc?"
> I've successfully recorded data (H.D. backup, for
> instance) on CDs,
> using an
> external CD/RW drive, which I cannot even get my new
> CD reader (in my new
> G4) to even recognize as a CD!
> That's not fair!
> Why should one CD reader/writer perform it's actions
> in such a way that
> someone
> else's reader/writer won't even recognize? I use all
> of my CDs for data
> recording,
> period.
> Take one from one machine and pass it to another
> machine, and the new drive
> doesn't even recognize that I put a disc in it!
>
> That part of the industry is all screwed up, as far
> as this consumer is
> concerned...
> Each vendor seemingly has a different way of doing
> things. That's got to
> stop!
>
> keith whaley
>
>
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