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From:Neil Bothwick
Date:9 Jun 2001 at 23:21:28
Subject:Re: CDRW Problem

Sam Thomas said,

> Just bought a CDRW drive to use mainly for backing my system up and burning
> a few mp3 audio cd's, got a problem though, even before I try and see if
> the CD Burning software will touch it! :-/

> I cant get the Workbench/DOpus to recognise the drive properly. HDToolbox
> reads the drive information perfectly fine (gets the drives name and
> manufactuerer) so it appears to be reading it on a hardware level.

Why do you want them to? you already have a CDROM drive, and it's best
if you don't have a filesystem mounted on your writer when burning CDs.
Does your buring software recognise it?

> If I insert a audio CD into the drive I get the usual Audio CD icon coming
> up without a problem. If I insert a dual format CD (Audio/Data) it will
> read the audio side of the disc fine but not the data side and finally, if I
> insert a data cd it will not read it at all ('info' says 'CD0: Not a
> DOS disk')

It sounds like an error in your DOSDriver file or its icon tooltypes.

Cheers

Neil



Neil Bothwick - New Media Editor, Amiga Active Magazine

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