Subject: Re: [TheForge] Computer question

Tue Nov 11 09:13:20 2003

At 11:30 AM 11/10/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:13:32 -0800, Bob Ehrenberger <[email protected]> 
>wrote:
>
>>I'm getting into this a little late.  But that doesn't stop me from add in
>>my 2 cents.
>>
>>I recently replaced my CD drive and it has a special driver that lets me use
>>it like a 600MB floppy drive,  read and write at will.  If I read a
>>commercially produced CD it operated like normal, but if I format the CD
>>myself the drive can only be opened via software, this special driver
>>(INCD).
>
>         That's pretty odd.  I have a SONY superdrive (does all formats r/w)
>         and it behaves as I would expect it to under all circumstances, 
> whether
>         cd/r, cd/rw, or DVD.

Unable to remove the cd except by using their software, as  you had to 
close the record, i.i.e.., write  "end of file" on the cd in order to be 
able to access it again. If you just pull it out, you might as well throw 
your disk and data away.

Michael D. Horgan , [email protected]
http://members.aol.com/lughaid/
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