[MacMarseille]

I bought a CDRW USB writer from Formac. It works well for CDR, but when I want to burn a CDRW with Toast 4.1.3, there are some problems :
- if I burn a full temporary partition created by Toast, burning is well, but I can't read the CD after (I can also clear it).
- if I burn th same content, but as Files and Folders, I can read the CD after, but I loose all icons and places I decided before burn.

Any Suggestion ??

(Material : iMac Rev. A, 20 Go HD, 160 Mo RAM)

MacMarseille

[Han's Hands on Leia]

Do you try to read the CD-RW disks from the burner or from the iMac's CD drive?

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[G4ME]

How many different Users do you have going Star Wars Freak?

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I Have a Super Computer

[Han's Hands on Leia]

Originally posted by G4ME:
How many different Users do you have going Star Wars Freak?

Four, you G4 freak
Some of those Star Wars names are not me.

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[G4ME]

I am just curious sorry, touched a hot button

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[MacMarseille]

From burner. My iMac CD drive is too slow to read CDRW.

Any idea ?

MacMarseille

[Cipher13]

The problem seems to be the format you are burning in.
Do you have all the CD extensions, such as ISO9660 installed, and whatnot?

What is the problem reading the CD after a burn from the temp partition? It just sits in the drive, spins but does't mount, or produces an error?

BTW, your iMac CD drive is NOT too slow to read CDRW's, its just crap. Sorry, but the rev 1 iMacs had awful drives.

Clean the laser, and it ought to be able to read the CDRW... its perfectly capable...


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[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Um, no. Non CD-RW drives are very iffy when it comes to reading CR-RW disks. It may be slow as hell, or some files will appear to be corrupt. I talked to Apple support about this and they agreed that CD-RW's should not be reliable in the internal CD-ROM and DVD drives. Only in the CD-RW burner.

[Cipher13]

Originally posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker:
<STRONG>Um, no. Non CD-RW drives are very iffy when it comes to reading CR-RW disks. It may be slow as hell, or some files will appear to be corrupt. I talked to Apple support about this and they agreed that CD-RW's should not be reliable in the internal CD-ROM and DVD drives. Only in the CD-RW burner.</STRONG>

Um, yes.

Yeah, they're iffy, sure, but, they work. As I said - they're perfectly capable, but also, crap... (re. the tray iMacs).

Personally I've never had a problem reading CDRW's in G4 towers, or iMacs rev 2 and later.

Technically the drive can read it fine. And usually, it does. Just like CDR's, but a little further on the extremity scale.

I've never seen incidents of data seeming corrupt - merely of not mounting on rev 1 iMacs, in which cases cleaning the laser fixed the problem.

[marka]

I create bootable CDRWs. They boot on my G4 and iMac DVSE.

I have notice no difference when reading CDRWs or CDRs I've burned.