[clyde2575]

I just got my Mac the other day and know nothing about using the CD-RW. My mom has a PC and has a program that allows her to use her CD-RW as a floppy drive. Does Toast do this? If not, I am looking for a program that will allow me to use my drive as a floppy (saving files to a CD and being able to change them, etc.). Please help.

[This message has been edited by clyde2575 (edited 05-27-2001).]

[chris v]

Toast is really almost too easy. I'm sure there's some READ ME files in the toast folder, or perhaps on the toast disk that should have come with your computer (not sure what disk it's on with bundled burners)
But really, all you have to do is drag and drop your files you want to copy onto the toast window, and click "burn." If you're using CD-RW (rewriteable) disks, be sure to "burn session." That way, you can keep adding files to the disk until it's full.

Just poke around the menus a bit. It's pretty self-explanatory. Cd's are so cheap it hardly matters any more if you flub up a couple learning.

You may want to look at "check speed" before you burn anything. If the numbers are red, try a slower speed until they turn green.

Getting the files back off the CD onto your hard drive is just like a floppy. Just drag and drop from the cd to your hard drive.

CV

[Rocha]

Try Disc Burner, it mounts your disk on the desktop so you can rename it, change the icon, arrange your files, etc. and then just go to the Special menu and select Burn CD
Hope this helps

[clyde2575]

After showing my mom all the info that everyone has given me, she asked if Direct CD by Adaptec is made for Mac? Can anyone tell me?

[VRL]

Adaptec = Roxio. Good CD creation software for the Mac is Toast (from Roxio). Don't see any mention of Direct CD on their web site. Not sure what has happened with that product. I have Direct CD for Mac on a bundled software disk that came with my drive, but have not used it. I always use Toast (and Jam for audio, although Toast Titanium would do audio CD's just fine).

Toast is good software for burning CD's (CD-R or CD-RW) or DVD's. Sounds like you want to use a CD-RW? (I guess you could say it mimics a floppy, although I've never heard it put that way before.) Anyway, Toast will work for you. There have been a number of threads discussing it. I've read many favorable comments, and would agree that it does a great job.

[OverclockedHomoSapien]

Yeah, Toast is where it's at for mac burning. I've used DirectCD before and it's not as good. Toast is made by Roxio, which is a subsidiary of Adaptec.

The burning software from Apple is OK, but you cannot burn discs with write sessions. A write session allows you to burn data to a disk and leave the disk open for more data burning at a later time. With the Mac, you burn a disc and that's it, even if you only put 10MB of files on it, it's closed.

I suggest you check out Toast 5 Titanium, it's very easy to use and you can burn discs in the background.

[larryn]

Originally posted by OverclockedHomoSapien:
Yeah, Toast is where it's at for mac burning. I've used DirectCD before and it's not as good. Toast is made by Roxio, which is a subsidiary of Adaptec.

The burning software from Apple is OK, but you cannot burn discs with write sessions. A write session allows you to burn data to a disk and leave the disk open for more data burning at a later time. With the Mac, you burn a disc and that's it, even if you only put 10MB of files on it, it's closed.

I suggest you check out Toast 5 Titanium, it's very easy to use and you can burn discs in the background.

Can Toast 5 make a bootable CD from an ISO image? I'm planning to purchase and would like to make sure it could perform this task.

I did glimpse thru Toast web site but haven't found any info on making a bootable CD from ISO image.

Thank you much.

-Larry

[OverclockedHomoSapien]

Can Toast 5 make a bootable CD from an ISO image?

It can make a bootable CD, but I'm not sure about the ISO image. What is an ISO Image? Do you mean a disk image?

[Mighty Hetfield]

Clyde, DirectCD is the program that lets you work with your CD-RW as a floppy. Unfortunately its Mac version has been discontinued due to reliability issues. Aparently Roxio (Adaptec) is still working on it (probably its a thought in the back of their minds) but I wouldn't expect for news any time soon.
My only suggestion is: get yourself a 5 or 10 pack of CD-RWs and you'll be able to add stuff (called sessions) and once you don't need that stuff or the disc is full and you want to start again, you can erase it. Unfortunately no software for macs will give you the flexibility of DirectCD (erasing only parts of the CD content instead of all of it) but I hope with a few extra CD-RWs you'll be able to manage your stuff.
Hope I could help