Dale,

    Sorry for the confusion. You're right. I did use a CD-RW drive to burn
the CD-RW disk I thought Mike meant burning a CD-RW disk in a standard CD
format as opposed to UDF ...

Tobie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dale Botkin" <dale@BOTKIN.ORG>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: CDRW question


> 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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