On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 11:57 pm, Chuck Burns wrote: > On Wed, February 5 2003 8:19 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > : On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 2:14 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: > : Nero definitely has a place to specify whether a disk is finalized or > : not. I can't comment on whether the disks are readable elsewhere - I only > : know that others have found this not to be so. > : > : Anne > > I have placed unfinalized CDs and CD-RWs into regular CD-rom drives, and > about 90% of the time they read them.. IF the drive is less than about 2 > years old.. any older than that, it's still possible, but slim.. Heck.. my > old 1x mitsumi actually read a CD-RW disc.. kinda.. I managed to mount the > disc.. and get a directory listing.. but the files were all garbage.
Interesting, Chuck. As I said, I have no personal experience. I've never really bothered with unfinalized disks, as media are so cheap, but I can see that there may be circumstances in which they are desirable. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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