[DM-MUG] CD-RW no seen on older MAC

Ray Bowler dmmug@dmmug.org
Fri, 7 Jan 2005 21:51:03 -0600


Thanks everybody. I never even thought about this being the case. 
Live an learn is what it is.

At 1:14 PM -0600 on 1/7/05, Darcy Baston wrote about Re: [DM-MUG] 
CD-RW no seen on older MAC:
>This has been my experience as well. CDRWs won't work on non burning 
>capable drives, while CDRs will.
>
>Darcy
>
>On Jan 7, 2005, at 1:04 PM, Dave Weis wrote:
>
>>Ray Bowler wrote:
>>>I burned a CD-RW on my wife's iBook running 10.2.8. I used Toast 
>>>and the MAC only option. If shows up on the iBook. It will not 
>>>mount on my 6500 running OS 9.1 or on my daughters 4100 updated to 
>>>OS 8.5. Wont these older machines recognize the RW?
>>
>>I don't think non-rw drives can normally read RW disks. I know on 
>>some versions of windows they have a packet reader extension that 
>>lets them read RW disks.
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