Re: Does the CD-SC Read Re-Writeable CD's?

["Marvin Miller" <marvinmiller@hotmail.com>]

Thanks David, I thought their might be an issue on reading the re-writeable
disks. I don't know much about it but the burner flashes a message stating
you nead a newer drive.

Adaptec's Easy CD 4.0 seems to work well for this. It seems to support the
right ISO standard and also has a check box limiting files names to 30
characters. In addition, it will automatically change the files name for you
when they are in conflict with the standard.

Thanks for your help;
Marvin Miller


"David Empson" <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote in message
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> Marvin Miller <marvinmiller@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm in the process of burning a CD for my //gs and I'm wondering if the
> > Apple CD-SC supports reading from re-writeable cd's?
>
> Almost certainly not.  You need a relatively recent CD-ROM drive (circa
> 1997 or later) to be able to read CD-RW media.
>
> It should be able to read CD-R media, but it probably won't support a
> multi-session CD-R: only the first session will be visible.
>
> You can make a multi-partition ProDOS and/or HFS CD, but it has to be
> written as a single session, preferably by setting up a hard drive with
> the desired content and using Toast's "SCSI Copy" (or "Disc Copy") mode
> to burn the CD.
>
> > Also, does the HFS file system support directories more than 8 levels
deep?
>
> Yes.  There is no fixed limited on the nesting depth for HFS, except for
> the maximum number of folders which can exist on the volume.  For
> reasons of user inconvenience, you shouldn't go too deep.
>
> > What is the longest filename permissable?
>
> HFS supports filenames up to 31 characters.
>
> The volume name is limited to 27 characters.
>
> There is no specific limit on the total pathname length, but some
> implementations may impose an artificial limit.  In the case of GS/OS,
> pathnames are limited to about 2048 bytes.