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[David R.Matusiak <dave AT matusiak.org>]

Altho I am dangerously tempted to ask how you will receive this email 
response if you are indeed "network-free", instead I will just try to 
answer your seemingly innocuous question.

Here is the answer as it was told to me: "To burn 'other machine aware' 
discs on Macintosh, you HAVE TO HAVE Toast."

Why is that the answer?  I don't know.  After several grand to the Jobs 
Disciples, I would like my machine to burn cds useable by other friends 
in my network (non-copyrighted material, of course).  But still they 
(the "Mac Experts" they) insist that I buy more software.  Made by a 
third party.  And its called "Toast."

Frightening, I know.  I have not purchased this software and I'm not 
sure if I ever will.  Maybe when the demands for Other-than-Mac capable 
cds are loud enough, I will have to plunge into such a contract 
agreement, but for now, my Mac is happily Toast-Free.

I haven't "poked at" Disk Copy much, but I don't think it will give you 
the info you are looking for.  In fact, I haven't found it to do much 
more than open "Disk Image" software packages onto my machine.  Alas, I 
think Apple needs to provide us with a way to burn cds for the rest of 
those people that don't have a Mac.  Altho they should probably buy a 
Mac anyway.  Then we could burn them cds.

dave ;)

p.s. I've used iTunes 4.0.1 to burn perfect, Universally-readable Audio 
cds, but I don't know if you want Audio cds or Data cds (or how you are 
currently burning cds).

On Friday, August 15, 2003, at 05:03  PM, Joey Carr wrote:

> All-
>
> I've got a question about some quirkiness I've observed in my iMac.
>
> I recently purchased an iMac with a super drive and I'm trying to get 
> it
> to burn CDs.  The CDs that I burn all seem to work splendidly provided
> that I read them on my iMac.  Any other machine and they come up 
> looking
> blank or appear as a single monolithic audio track that won't play.
>
> I've tried investigating whether it's just using some sort of 
> proprietary
> file system, but I can't figure out how to poke the Disk Copy program 
> into
> giving me this information about any of my disc images or the CD 
> itself.
> Added to this is the fact that all of the Disk Copy documentation is
> on-line and I'm network free at home at the moment.