Yes it does work with cdr media. Your recorder must be packet writer
compatible. See below for the word from adaptec about Direct CD. Your
problem might be writing too much data to the cdr. Seems that the method
used has quite high overhead, you only can get about 550 megs on a cdrw and
over 600 on a cdr. Adaptec says to leave at least 10 megs free to close a
disk.

vic

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Packet Writing Methods in DirectCD
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        DirectCD 1.0x for Windows 95    DirectCD 2.x for Windows 95 & NT        DirectCD 1.0x
for Macintosh
Variable-length packets (sequential erase)      CD-R and CD-RW media    CD-R media
CD-R and CD-RW media
Fixed-length packets (random erase)     No      CD-RW media*    No
* If you have a CD-RW disc originally formatted with DirectCD 1.0x, DirectCD
2.0x will continue to write to that disc in variable-length packets, so you
cannot randomly erase and recover space on it. In order to prepare the disc
for random erase, you need to erase it completely and reformat it with
DirectCD 2.0.


-----Original Message-----
From:   PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Cesar Mendoza
Sent:   Sunday, August 15, 1999 7:19 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: [PCBUILD] Maxell CD-R74

Thanks, but...

I have been working with DirectCD since I bought my HP-Writer.
I have formated hundreds of CDs (CD-R).

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