|
|
Small CDs in slot-load drive?
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Utah
Status:
Offline
|
|
Hi all.
Can I use those small CDs in my 12" PB's slot-load drive?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: May 2003
Location: SoCal
Status:
Offline
|
|
I am under the impression that you cannot...I may be wrong though
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jun 1999
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Utah
Status:
Offline
|
|
Thanks! I actually just found that same doc but got caught up watching CSI and forgot to say nevermind.
Thanks, though!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: May 2003
Status:
Offline
|
|
Read note 2 -- it says most recent G4 PBs cannot use the 80 mm round discs.
sigh, I was hoping to get a DVD camdcorder, too!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jun 1999
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
Status:
Offline
|
|
Thanks for pointing out note 2. I didn't see that.
Chris
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Senior User
Join Date: Dec 2000
Status:
Offline
|
|
BUT--they DO make adapter rings that make a small-size (round, or even rounded-card) CD go into a drive that can't normally take that.
I don't know for a fact that such an adapter would be the answer on a PBG4, but it's a possibility. (If the ring held the disc in tightly, I'd be willing to try it.)
I want to use small-round CD-Rs to burn files for clients, so I'll be curious to learn if the adapters work. (I've seen them--not sure where to buy them but they exist.)
|
nagromme
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2001
Status:
Offline
|
|
It was disappointing to find my G4 Cube working fine with my small CD-RW discs, but not my new Powerbook 15 inch. Guess I'll try to track down one of the adaptors, or finally buy a 256 meg USB memory key.
|
<This space under renovation>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Senior User
Join Date: Dec 2000
Status:
Offline
|
|
Also, not everyone knows that if you attach your digital still cam (via USB or flash reader) you can access the camera in the Finder and use it for storage--it IS a flash drive after all!
|
nagromme
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Forum Regular
Join Date: Mar 2000
Status:
Offline
|
|
Just get a cheap external CD-R drive that can handle the small disks... I wouldn't risk my internal drive trying out products like that.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: May 2003
Status:
Offline
|
|
I am planning on buying a DVD Camcorder, which exclusively use the smaller disks.
Now I may have to purchase an external DVD reader just to transfer the data to my computer. Or use my camcorder as a very expensive external DVD player!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Sep 2003
Status:
Offline
|
|
Just to take a step back - the small format discs are 'neat', but think about it: if YOU might not be able to read them, your clients might not either. I wouldn't take the chance of jamming someone's drive just for the novelty factor of the disc.
Don't all the DV cameras support firewire out?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Senior User
Join Date: Dec 2000
Status:
Offline
|
|
Novelty is worth something in business, and my clients are PC-based mainly--which means slot-loads are rare. A warning on my custom labels might be in order just the same. The other issue is mailing--the little guys fit in a letter envelope.
Also for me, that novelty encourages people to buy what I "sell"--I create interactive CD-ROMs (and web sites)
|
nagromme
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|