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DVD-RW in Jaguar?
Authored by: ultmast on Sep 30, '02 09:18:21PM
I've burned DVD-RW disks in the finder at least since 10.1 ... I can't remember if I did earlier than that. Most of the time I use Toast, but occasionally I use the finder to do it (after erasing it with Disk Utility first). Funny thing too .. I would ask my local mac shops (Tekserve and Digital Society here in NYC) about when they would offer DVD-RWs to buy so I could use them with my SuperDrive .. they would try to convince me that my SuperDrive was incapable of burning DVD-RWs .. actually argue with me about it .. damndest thing. Point is, great feature that Apple seems to go out of its way to not advertise.

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DVD-RW in Jaguar?
Authored by: DVD Plaza on Sep 30, '02 11:04:56PM

I don't think you understand - the only support OSX has for CD-RW is to erase them. For burning the only thing you can do is burn exactly like a CD-R.

What people are wanting is actual CD-RW support - treat the CD like a hard disk, allowing you to copy/edit/delete any file on the CD-RW whenever you like.



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DVD-RW in Jaguar?
Authored by: sbryan on Oct 01, '02 12:01:40PM

"I don't think you understand - the only support OSX has for CD-RW is to erase them..."

In your reply you refer to CD-RW repeatedly rather than DVD-RW which appears to be the topic. Is this simply a misprint or are there two different media being discussed?



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DVD-RW in Jaguar?
Authored by: robarmo on Oct 01, '02 08:17:38PM

There are two different types of media being mentioned, but the basic principles are the same. They're both Re-Writable optical storage mediums at the end of the day. I wasn`t actually referring to hard-disk like functionality in my initial posting, although this feature would be useful. (doesn`t DVD-RAM allow this?) I know the Finder treats a CD-RW as a CD-R once it has been initialised, I just wasn`t sure if it allowed DVD-RW to be used and re-used as a DVD-R for back-up purposes (prior to a clean install of Jaguar). Backing up my Home to a single disc (4.29GB after initialising) is a lot easier than spreading it across a series of CD-RWs and Zip Disks!

Thanks for your help everybody.

Rob.



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DVD-RW in Jaguar?
Authored by: DVD Plaza on Oct 01, '02 10:23:45PM

Doesn't matter whether its DVD-RW or CD-RW, OSX doesn't support using either as an "actual rewritable format" - merely that it supports erasing them so that you can burn to them again.

Shame, treating a RW disc like a hard drive (in Windows, though not a built-in feature) is very very handy - and some CD-RWs come preformatted for this so you have to erase them before use on a Mac anyways :\



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