>Well I borrowed my friend's AUS$900 Hewlett Packard CD Writer today.
>The install program froze Windoze 98 twice. That's quite acceptable
>when you work with Windoze.
A HP CD, interesting! (see why later)
>
>The first CD copy I tried failed. The program said to fix the
>problem, try restarting Windoze, or if that doesn't work try
>reinstalling the drivers and programs for the CD writer.
Not suprising, the HP CD Writers are *bad*! Most of the CDs I created with
the three (3!) diffrent HP CD Writers I had got corrupted.
My advice on CD recorders are:
1. Avoid IDE (better use SCSI, DAO will *not* work with IDE as far as I know)
2. Avoid HP (I got around 70 trashed CDs to prove my point)
3. Avoid CD-RW (costs much, slow, little space)
>Again that's expected when using Windoze. Reboot, and try again, this
>time works fine on the same disk. Inconsistancy - well it probably
>says that somewhere in the Windoze manual, quite acceptable.
I bet you copied from another IDE drive, is that correct? You should only
use SCSI for this option (or make a ISO image first)
>An interesting note about writing my own audio CD is that the
>programs says that an audio CD must be written to all in one go, and
>'closed' on the actual disk before you can listen to it on a CD
>player.
Yes, normal CD players can't use Multisession (old computer CD players
can't either)
>I wrote about 20 minutes worth of music to it, and closed it, which
>means a CD player can only now recognise those 4 songs. Additional
>data can be written to it, but cannot be accessed by a normal CD
>player. Correct me if I'm wrong.
No need, you are correct.
>Now where does one get the information for programing the CD writers
>to make for example a DOS program?
Well, HP has this information on there site. I know since I thought that
was perhaps my last resort. It's not just my CD, we are four on it, and I
and two more are _rather_ experienced programmers. I decieded we should
traid in the CD writer instead, and so we did. The new Sony 4X/8X SCSI has
*never* made a corrupt CD (except that StarCraft don't work on W98, but
that's not the CD-Rs fault!)
>I tried to get some information from the company that makes my car's
>computer, and they said this information is 'Proprietory' and they
>cant give it to me. Do they have this right?
I have no idea.
//Bernie
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