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Anyone able to erase CDRW via external Firewire?
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Senior User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Cary, NC
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I'm looking for any examples of people able to erase CDRW's in an external Firewire CDRW drive.
I'm stuck between ADS, Toast, Lite-on trying to figure out why I cannot erase a CDRW.
According to the Toast 5.1PR2 notes, they do not support erasing CDRW, which implies my only choice is Disc Utility (from Apple) which attempts
to erase, but just goes off into never-never-land after putting up the
dialog box saying it is erasing.
B&W G3/400 running 10.1
ADS Pyro 1394 case, Lite-on 16102B CDRW
So if someone has a different case working, or a Pyro case that is
working, I'd love to know about it.
Again, only intersted in erasing CDRWs. Everything else works.
Thanks,
Mike
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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I don't think this is a FireWire-only issue. My USB burner also can't erase CDRWs.
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/mal
"I sentence you to be hanged by the neck until you cheer up."
MacBook Pro 15" w/ Mac OS 10.8.2, iPhone 4S & iPad 4th-gen. w/ iOS 6.1.2
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: New Hartford, NY, USA
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I have had problems as well using Toast Titanium PR2 with an external Yamaha Firewire CD-RW. The only way I could erase a CD-RW was by using the DiskUtility program that comes with OS X, 10.1. It's a little slower than Toast is OS 9, but at least it gets the job done.
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Senior User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Cary, NC
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I'd like to rule Toast out as the 5.1PR2 release notes specifically state
that CDRW erasing is not supported (that may not mean it doesn't work at
all, only that they aren't ready to guarantee it).
For me Disc Utility goes off in the weed after the box pops down to say
"erasing" and the CDRW is un-mounted from the desktop.
So if you have it working, can you tell us what case/drive/Mac you have?
Thanks,
Mike
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Fremont, CA, USA
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The way to do it is to open the disk utility, select the RW disk and then the erase option. Worked for me and could burn to the CD no problem afterwards.
Toast is extremely wobbly - wonder how long it will be before it functions properly.
Neil
The drive is QueFire 10x12x36 firewire. Don't know what the internal mechanism is.
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Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: San Jose CA
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Hi,
I have been able to erase most CDRWs using my external Firewire
CDRW (Que Fire! 8x8x32) and Disk Utility. I've been able to burn the
erased CDRWs using Toast for OS X without any problems.
I did have some problems using older 2x only CDRWs but all my
newer 4x and 10x rated CDRWs erase just fine. In the case of the
2x CDRWs, Disk Utility hung just before finishing. I just force quit
Disk Utility and burned the disk and everything seemed to work
correctly.
HTH,
----ranga
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