[booboo]

Overburning. Those of us that want it, really want it, while everybody else just wonder why, and think why bother . . .

FireStarterFX, a great little app, supports overburning but only reads toc, cue, or iso images, not toast.

How do I get my .toast files into a format FireStarter can understand? Toast doesn't seem to support any file format other than its own . . .

Anyone?

[iOliverC]

Couldn't you just mount the .toast and made a cue/bin out of the files you mounted?

[booboo]

Originally posted by iOliverC:
Couldn't you just mount the .toast and made a cue/bin out of the files you mounted?

FireStarter only enables me to copy CD's - not mounted image files, or folders and files . . .

[Sharky K.]

I just found YuBurner, it can burn 700mb cd's. Just select the files you want.

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by Sharky K.:
I just found YuBurner, it can burn 700mb cd's. Just select the files you want.

Toast can burn 700MB CDs too if you buy 80-minute media. Overburns are usually 81 to 99 minutes of data/audio.

[booboo]

Originally posted by Sharky K.:
I just found YuBurner, it can burn 700mb cd's. Just select the files you want.

Yes Toast is fine for up to 700MB data but no overburn . . .

I have some 740MB toast images I need to burn - I also have some 800MB certified CD's which I'm itching to use . . .

[King Bob On The Cob]

.toast is a .iso with a different name if I'm not mistaken.

[booboo]

Originally posted by King Bob On The Cob:
.toast is a .iso with a different name if I'm not mistaken.

What can I say? You're absolutely right. I changed .toast to .iso and FireStarter can now see it.

What a difference a suffix makes . . .

I'm burning, I'm burning . . .

I burn 702 of the 748MB image and FireStarter spits out the CD and seems to have frozen . . .

Hmmm...

[wede1]

Keep in mind is that the media is very important also.

I have found through much aggravation that the choice of media is *very* important.

Long story short, I have had several CD-Rs go south. After a little perusing, I found the following:

<snip>
Many optical disk manufacturers use a hybrid of dyes instead of the patented dyes known to last the longest. In CD-Rs the only media that has known patented dyes are Verbatim, Imation, Sony, and Kodak. I don't know what it is in DVD-R, but wouldn't be surprised if the same situation is there. Not only that, there is a small writable ring on the label side outside part of the CD-R which if scratched could render the disk useless. The laser reading the media may have a real problem with complex labels on the disk, especially if they cause added weight to make the disk unbalanced. This is especially evident in notebook optical drives as the extreme noise and vibrations some disks have is due to the disk becoming unbalanced. And if it is seriously unbalanced it won't be readable. Worse yet, many CD media is sold on spindles which when shaken cause the writable side to scratch on the label side of the disk beneath it. These latter two problems can be prevented by buying media in jewel boxes and using jewel box inserts instead of sticky labels to apply to the media. There was an interesting series on Macintouch about CD-R failure which showed some CD media might only last 6 months!

The basic backup principle is backup to at least two off computer locations. So saying backup to DVD only works so well. Make sure you have at least two backups of everything valuable. That way, if one disk goes bad, you can always backtrack to an earlier operating system or a different operating system to recover items you need.
<snip>

I found the info on this site:
http://www.macmaps.com/1mac.html

HTH