I've noticed that music CDs made on a RW disc may not play back on older CD
players, while an R disc will.
John
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----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Stephens <mike1964@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 6:07 PM
Subject: RE: [OM] CD backup (was Zip drive repair?)
> I just bought Backup Exec Desktop for Windows (formerly Seagate, now owned
> by Veritas software). Found it at Buy.com for about $58. It supports
> backups to CD-R or CD-RW. For my Mac I use Retrospect Express, which
allows
> backup to CD-R or RW as well. Both pieces of software are highly rated.
> Both allow selection of individual files for backup, compression, etc.
You
> can restore individual files, folders, or the entire drive. The CD-R or
RW
> is a great method. As a bonus, you can also burn Audio CDs (using Toast
or
> Easy CD, both from Adaptec, and both come with many drive bundles).
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Mike
> [I have no affiliation to any of the companies mentioned]
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Windrim, Brian
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 6:57 AM
> To: 'olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [OM] CD backup (was Zip drive repair?)
>
>
> Denton Taylor wrote:
>
> >> Are you able to copy normal files to the CD? I have been able both to
> copy
> >> files and run the backup software with no problem...
>
> I guess that Denton is running Adaptec DirectCD. As Acer mentioned, it's a
> special filesystemthat lets you use a CDR or CDRW as a read/write volume.
> The caveats are
> that you need the software installed to be able to read the discs and
that,
> on CDR,
> deleted space isn't recovered (obviously). DirectCD is bundled (along with
> EasyCD Creator) with most new CDRW drives.
>
> Adaptec have a new piece of software, called Take Two, which runs on top
of
> DirectCD
> and can make a complete "image" backup of a partition or an entire disc,
and
> can
> restore the system from the CD(s) via an emergency boot floppy.
>
> That's the theory, anyway. After waiting months for it to become
available,
> I got
> Take Two as part of CD Creator 4 Deluxe (the only way you can get it at
the
> moment)
> and installed it under Win98. Every time I try to make a backup with Take
> Two, it
> crashes with an "illegal instruction" error. The new version of DirectCD
> itself works
> fine, as did the previous version which came with the drive.
>
> YMMV and I wouldn't take this as damning until I've spent some more time
> trying to
> sort it out.I may also try it under NT4, but I prefer to keep new software
> on the
> Win98 side for testing as NT is where I do real work. I would also expect
> Win98
> versions to have received *more* QA testing as that's where the bulk of
the
> market is.
>
> I have no affiliation to Adaptec (if that needed to be said).
>
> -Brian
>
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