I havent experimented much with the options (leave open, multi-session,
write-once and or other permutations) but in my own experience I've had
less trouble with "Write the whole disk at once and include label text" and
found that to be the most successful and consistent wavy to go.
[All of the CDs I create are for audio or ISO image datasets for creating
O/S installation disks.]
-WaV
On 6/29/07, Minton, Mark <[email protected]> wrote:
Bill Mixon said:
>I wonder whether some of the CD-Rs that prove unreadable elsewhere are
using a non-standard format.
Could be. I don't know what format any CDs use, although the open
ones I was making were not of the interactive program type that Bill
described. It could be that the open CDs are not in a standard format
though, and get converted to one when finalized. Actually, what probably
gets finalized is their directory, since there would be no way to change the
data format after files were already recorded.
>I've never seen any advantage to programs like Nero.
Nero gives options for different types of CD, like audio, video,
data, backup, etc., although I don't know if there is any real difference in
those. I like the way Nero allows me to organize the files before I burn
the CD. I can add, remove, and shuffle the order at will. It also shows a
bar graph of CD capacity and how far along I am toward filling it up as I
manipulate files. One can also save the burn project for future use,
although I have never done that. It seems unlikely such features would
affect the final format, however.
Mark Minton
