On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Tobie Horswill wrote:

> 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 ...

But you used a CDRW drive.  He was asking about using CDRW media in a CDR
drive.  I thin it would work about as well as a ZIP disk in a floppy drive
-- that is to say, not at all.

Dale
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