CDR Technical Support

Thank you for joining us here! We at Creative Digital Research believe the best way of supporting our customers is to better help them understand the CD Creation process. This page is designed with this concept in mind. If at any time you feel the need to ask a technical question, please write Technical Support for fast and effective service.

Supported Formats:

HyCD: Hybrid CD-ROM integrating PC, Macintosh and UNIX formats on a single CD-ROM.
PC: ISO 9660 Level 1, Level 2, Level 3.
Macintosh: HFS.
UNIX: ISO 9660 with Rock Ridge Extension.
Windows 95 / Windows NT 4.0: Joliet File System.
Bootable CD-ROM.
Native UNIX File System Format; UFS, EFS, etc.

Multimedia Formats:

Red Book Audio, Track-At-Once
Mixed Mode.
CD-ROM XA.
Video CD 2.0 (White Book).
CD-Plus (or Enhanced CD).

HyCD Preserves All Formats:

HyCD format preserves all the data in the Native environment. All data are shared not duplicated.

PC

File Names in 8.3 format
Permission

PC; Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0

Long File Names; Up to 64 Unicode Characters.
Permission

Macintosh

Resource Fork
Data Fork
Finder information
Icon and Icon position
Full file names including unprintable characters

UNIX

Full long file names
Unlimited directory depth
Full file and directory permissions
Symbolic and hard links
Special files, i.e. block, character, FIFO, PIPE device files

Supported CD-ROM Recorders:

Hewlett Packard 4020i
Kodak PCD 200
Kodak PCD 200+
Kodak PCD 225
Kodak PCD 600
Olympus Deltis CD-R2
Philips CDD 521 Upgrade
Philips CDD 522
Philips CDD 2000
Plasmon RF 4100
Plasmon RF 4102
Plasmon RF 4220
Plextor PX-R24CS
Ricoh RO-1420C
Sony CDW-900E
Sony CDU-920S
Sony CDU-921S
Sony CDU-924S
Yamaha CDE/CDR 100
Yamaha CDE/CDR 100 II
Yamaha CDE/CDR 102
Smart & Friendly CDR 1002
Smart & Friendly CDR 2000
Smart & Friendly CDR 2004
Smart & Friendly CDR 4000
Microboards Playwrite 2000
Microboards Playwrite 2002
Microboards Playwrite 4000

Tape Support:

4mm DAT Tape
8mm Exabyte Tape

Supported Platforms:

SGI Indy, Indigo, Indigo2, Onyx; IRIX 5.2, 5.3, 6.0, 6.2
Sun SPARC; SunOS 4.1.X, Solaris 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
PC; MS Windows 3.1, WfW, Windows NT, Windows 95

Supported Window Environments:

X Window System; X11R4, X11R5, X11R6
Openwindows 3.X, Common Desktop
Motif 1.2
MS Windows 3.1, Windows For Workgroups, Windows NT 3.51, Windows 95

Supported PC Adapters:

Adaptec SCSI Adapters;
Buslogic SCSI Adapters;
Advansys SCSI Adapters;
Other 100% WinASPI compliant SCSI Adapters.

Format Features:

Create CD-ROM Image On-The-Fly.
Simulate CD-ROM With SCSI Disk.
Optimize And Customize Disc Layout.
Automatic Or Manual File Name Conversion.
Volume Descriptor Editing.
Automatic Verification During Write.
Supports Multi-Session and Multi-Volume.
Profile System Speed Before Recording.
Virtual Write Eliminates Creation Of Bad CDs.

Duplication:

CD-ROM To CD-R Direct Duplication

Recording Speed:

6X, 4X, 2X, 1X