Am I to understand that if you burn audio disks, you have to
do it all in one session, so that a TOC is written?

But, for data storage, you can write some files now
and then later and then later, so that it is somewhat
like a floppy?

For example, I would like to back up some files (old games)
to a cd.  I can write some now.  Then next week write
some more?

It makes no difference to me if it is write
once or write many, as I would keep it.  (The price of
cd-r has come way down.)  I have some games that
I downloaded patches for.  I have no permanent place
to store these patches, but copy them from disk to
disk.

TIA

Dean Kukral  [log in to unmask]




-----Original Message-----
From: Herbert Graf <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, April 16, 2000 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] cd rw disks


>>> there is no reason to do it that way. If I burn
>>> a CDRW as a normal data CD,
>
>> 1. A normal data cd rw that is a closed session
>> most likely ,but my experience has shown not always,
>> and with an audio on a cdrw to a stero system cd
>> player never, sorry if I didn't clarify my bad.
>
>    That's why I said "a normal data CD", leaving a session open renders a
>CDR(W) useless on anything other than a CDR/W Drive because the TOC hasn't
>been written. I often burn my audio compilations to CDRW and play them in
my
>home CD player. Not many cd players can play CDRW, but when they can it is
>very convenient (most DVD players can play CDRW). I have found that most
>Sony component CD Players don't even hiccup on CDRW media.
>
>>> any CDROM that can read CDRWs will be able to
>>> read it, without special software
>
>> 2. Depending on what cd write software was used to
>> write it and that it was closed session afterward
>> I would say it should but it does not always do that
>> I wish it would.
>
>     No matter what CDR software you use, if you burn a CDRW disc as a
>normal Data or audio CD (which means the session is closed) any player that
>can adjust to the lower reflectivity of a CDRW will be able to read it
>without any special software. The only case this isn't true is if you use
>Mickysoft's Joliet format for long files names, some OS's don't like that
>format. TTYL
>

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