Re: [Finale] disk formatting?

Hi Bernard,Actually, the Bondi iMacs did not have internal Zip drives or any other removable storage. You could, of course, add an _external_ USB Zip drive, or USB floppy drive, or whatever. - Darcy-[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://secretsociety.typepad.comBrooklyn, NY On 04 Dec 2005, at 9:13 AM, Bernar

Re: [Finale] disk formatting?

On Dec 01, 2005, at 13:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  1st-gen. iMacs were the first to have no floppy drive. If they can't  burn data to a CD, then they can't copy to removable media at all! Andrew Stiller On Nov 30, 2005, at 1:35 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Nonetheless, this page says CD-ROM, n

Re: [Finale] disk formatting?

1st-gen. iMacs were the first to have no floppy drive. If they can't burn data to a CD, then they can't copy to removable media at all! Andrew Stiller On Nov 30, 2005, at 1:35 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Nonetheless, this page says CD-ROM, not CD-R:

Re: [Finale] disk formatting?

On 29.11.2005 Darcy James Argue wrote: Do you have a FW hard drive (or iPod) you could use instead? I don't think the first generation iMac had Firewire. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ Finale mail

Re: [Finale] disk formatting?

On 11/30/05, Eric Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29.11.2005, at 22:38, Brad Beyenhof wrote: > (snip) > > That's how it worked with floppies, but not with CDs. CD-R media can > > only be written to once-- formatting, data, and all. The exception to > > this is packet-writing software which

Re: [Finale] disk formatting?

BurnAgain software (http://freeridecoding.net/burnagain) can do this on the Mac. Hope this helps. Fiedler Habsburger Verlag Frankfurt (Dr. Fiedler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 29.11.2005, at 22:38, Brad

Re: [Finale] disk formatting?

At 1:13 PM -0500 11/30/05, Andrew Stiller wrote: On Nov 29, 2005, at 5:22 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Andrew, First off, are you certain your wife's iMac has an internal burner? I don't believe this was standard on the first-gen iMacs. First of all, thanks to all who answered my query. V

Re: [Finale] disk formatting?

On 11/30/05 1:13 PM, "Andrew Stiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As to the point above, tho, I find it hard to believe. 1st-gen. iMacs > were the first to have no floppy drive. If they can't burn data to a > CD, then they can't copy to removable media at all! > Andrew -- You're right -- they

Re: [Finale] disk formatting?

>As to the point above, tho, I find it hard to believe. 1st-gen. iMacs >were the first to have no floppy drive. If they can't burn data to a >CD, then they can't copy to removable media at all! My First gen imac didn't burn, and it wasn't one of the first off the line either! -- Simon Troup Di

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Nonetheless, this page says CD-ROM, not CD-R: What does it say in System Profiler on your wife's machine? - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://secretsociety.typepad.com Brooklyn, NY On 30 Nov 2005, at 1:13 PM, Andrew Stiller wr

Re: [Finale] disk formatting?

On Nov 29, 2005, at 5:22 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Andrew, First off, are you certain your wife's iMac has an internal burner? I don't believe this was standard on the first-gen iMacs. First of all, thanks to all who answered my query. Very helpful. As to the point above, tho, I find

Re: [Finale] disk formatting?

Andrew, First off, are you certain your wife's iMac has an internal burner? I don't believe this was standard on the first-gen iMacs. Do you have a FW hard drive (or iPod) you could use instead? - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://secretsociety.typepad.com Brooklyn, NY On 29 Nov 2005,

Re: [Finale] disk formatting?

On 29.11.2005 Brad Beyenhof wrote: >And BTW, I want to come out of this with a windows-readable disc. CD-Rs are burned with CDFS, which is a file system readable by both Windows and Macintosh. That's not exactly true. You can burn a CD in HFS, which is Mac only, and a Windows PC without spec

Re: [Finale] disk formatting?

On 11/29/05, Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I could have sworn that if you stick a blank disc into a computer--any > computer--you should get a dialog asking how you want to format it--and > I also coulda sworn that on a Mac you can format a blank disc and then > copy onto it later. So

[Finale] disk formatting?

OK, this is making me feel real dumb. My wife asked me to copy some files from her computer (1st-generation iMac running System 9.1) onto a CD. I put a blank CD into the slot, the computer ruminates about it for a while and spits it back out. I put the same CD into my own computer (running 9.2)