OT? This can't be right!

[Bert Knabe]

There is a way to burn multi-session CD's in OS X using Disk Copy (in 
conjunction w/Disk Burner, IIRC), but I'll have to look up the 
workaround. It's not complicated, I just don't use it, so I didn't 
bother to memorize it.

Bert

On Monday, September 30, 2002, at 09:16  PM, Beartooth wrote:

> On Monday, 9/30/02, Tim Seufert <tas@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>> I assume you used the OS X built in burning software?  I don't
>> think that it supports session burning, which is the only way to
>> add data to a CD-R or CD-RW.  You probably have to use a program
>> like Toast to burn sessions under OS X.
>
> 	What I had in mind when I asked was straight OSX, yes;
> that's why I feared it might be OT. Someone on another list has
> suggested that session burning might be buried under layers of
> configuration menus somewhere. If so, I didn't find it (but I have
> what seems to me inordinate trouble finding anything in OSX). I did
> find a hint in the help for CD burning which seemed to imply that
> session burning might require external hardware.
>
>> Burning CDs under Linux can be kind of a pain,
>
> 	You can say that again! I've tried hard under RedHat, and
> had mighty little success so far. So I haven't even tried YDL
> itself yet, figuring I had little chance of doing appreciably
> better with it.
>
>> but it definitely can be done.  (The main problem, IMO, is that
>> there doesn't seem to be any really nice GUI frontend for
>> cdrecord -- or, at least, I've never found one.  If you can
>> figure out how to use cdrecord directly, it is quite powerful and
>> works very well.)
>
> 	Many thanks for the reassurance! I need all I can get. ;-/
>
>> What programs are you using and what are the problems you're
>> having with them?
>
> 	Xcdroast, cdroast itself in a terminal, and one with an
> icon looking like an old-fashioned pop-up toaster, only blued like
> gun metal, instead of chrome-plated and mirror-polished; the name
> escapes me at the moment. The furthest I ever got, even with help
> over the Net, was to burn a .iso of several sizeable files onto a
> CD with cdroast -- and when I tried to open that with a reader, it
> spewed so bad I just killed the app. :-(
>
> Andrew Hodel <andrew@eurozip.net> suggested gtoaster.
>
> 	I hope that isn't the one with the toaster icon whose name
> won't come off the tip of my keyboard! I'll look next time I boot
> to linux -- and how about KDE?? Anybody got a good one there?
>
> 	I've just erased and reformatted last night's test CD-RW,
> after moving last night's work back onto the hard drive <sigh>;
> now I'll ftp a swampload more of old email off my ISP, burn it onto
> it, and rename it part of the email archive. But that's the big
> hammer, and I'd be a lot better off archiving bits every month,
> when my account starts running up against its quota. Like Tim, I'll
> be very glad to hear of something that doesn't require three years
> of postdoc in linux to be able to use!
> -- 
> Beartooth Implacable <karhunhammas (at) lserv.com>
> double retiree, linux nestling RH 7.2, YDL 2.2, OSX 10.1.5
> Pine 4.43; Pan 0.11.2; Privoxy 3.0.0, Opera 6.03, Galeon 1.2.5
> Delenda est MegaSleazo!
>
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