Well sorry to be the eretic in this thread but I remember one case were it did work. Accompanying a Minerva VNP CODEC I had received a CD with drivers on it which couldn't be read in my laptop's DVD drive. The CD was actually a CD-R and I remembered hearing that some DVD drives couldn't read CD-R discs but could read CD-RW disc. So I simply made a copy of the CD-R on a CD-RW and it worked fine (with Adaptec Easy CD Creator I think). I never tried erasing the CD-RW though but I think there is a utility just for that purpose with the Adaptec software. I'll check at work tomorrow morning ... Tobie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike" To: Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 6:55 PM Subject: [OT]: CDRW question -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu