Mac storage hardware, Writing Cds and CDWR

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Mac storage hardware >> Writing Cds and CDWR

by jk.blundell » Thu, 09 Jun 2005 04:32:10 GMT

HI Everyone,

I am recently the proud owner of a Power PC G5. I am new to this
technology (and new to a newsgroup as well!!)

Anyway I am trying to figure out how to make a CDRW disc on my combi
drive. I managed to get a file onto thhe disc but it was then declared
full and read only. I erased the disc (having discovered this site and
the append facility in burn) but now it sees the disc as read only and
it doesn't appear on my desktop.

What I would like to do is just drop files onto the CDWR so they can
also be read on a Dos machine. I am told the Mac is easy to use - but
I am lost at the minute.

Does Anyone have any ideas?

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knowledge to share with others, only questions. Sorry about that.

The problem - my wife's PPC G3 ibook, sys 10.2.8 no longer wants to deal with 
blank CDs. The sys pref is to open the finder when a blank CD is inserted. I 
expect to see an icon representing the blank CD, when I insert one.

Instead, the drive whirrs merrily away, and soon it stops, the disc is 
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I tried having the computer open the disc utility, instead - and the 
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