Re: Saving to CD

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From: NobodyMan (none_at_none.net)
Date: 05/16/04 

Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 17:44:35 -0400

On Sun, 16 May 2004 03:28:56 -0700, "ThePainter"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>Help please. I have CD-RW drive CRW-5224A, produced
>byASUS. It came with a CR-RW Mitsubishi disc which I
>use like a floppy, saving, altering and resaving
>information. I have now bought a pack of CD-RW, Packard
>Bell but find I can only save read-only copies, cannot
>make any alterations and can only delete everything on
>the CD (not one file). Can anyone explain why not, can
>I change the format to enable them to be used as floppies
>as well, or is there an alternative CD that I have not
>seen that works like a floppy?
>>Thanks
>>.
>>
>The method you used on your first CD is called block
>writing, the cd needs to be specially formatted and you
>require a UDF reader to access the CD and most formatted
>CD's have an installable udf reader on the CD for someone
>who may need to access the CD and dont have a UDF reader.
>You get a formatter with Roxio or Nero burning suites. I
>use Roxio "Direct CD". You do lose about 100 MB of the CD
>space when formatting. but it is a handy method of saving
>files.
>PS. when putting files on the CD give it a couple of
>minutes before you try to access the files because this
>system is notouriously unstable and gets into an infinite
>loop and freezes your system. I needed to kill it at the
>mains to escape once. but if your patient its OK.
>
Although UDF can be viewed as a "handy method of saving files," be
advised that it is also trouble-prone. Packet writing systems work
great, until they don't. Once that happens, you are pretty much stuck
with a CDR full of trash you won't ever see again.

Never put critical files on a UDF CDR(W). It's just asking for
trouble.

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