>Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 13:20:50 -0400 >From: Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: PC disk woes >In-reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Message-id: <l0310280ab9424709e59c@[192.168.1.100]> > >>Not sure about DirectCD on this PC, but I do not have a Burner on this PC, >>just a standard CD-ROM. >> >>Anyone know where to find DirectCD for the mac? > >DirectCD is a way of treating a CD-R blank like a big floppy. On >the machine which the data and CD-R burner live, you can just drag >and drop stuff onto the blank CD and keep adding material without >separate "sessions" as you would if you used regular CD-R authoring >software. You generally will fail to have one of these directCD >disks be readable off of that computer, until you "close" the disk >and make it unable to take more data. And sometimes even that won't >result in something readable elsewhere. I don't think it would do >you any good without a burner no matter what, even for reading. > >IIRC DirectCD Mac is ancient and not recommended. I'm not >convinced that the old mac version would read a DirectCD from a >newer PC version of DirectCD, even if you could still find it.
I have had nothing but bad luck with DirectCD. If anything goes wrong before you close the disk it usually turns out unreadable. Using their recover function once it clicked and whirred for hours and hours and the final verdict: "This disk is unreadable." -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
