Re: [WinMac] CD/DVD help

Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:03:45 -0700

well, a parallel one will be worthless for the mac, and nearly so for
the pc...my experience with parallel solutions for IO devices has been
they're slower than SCSI or USB, also crankier.

AFAIK, DVD RAM drives are still pretty much bleeding edge technology,
their disks are not always readable on other drives.

OTOH, CD-RW is quite nice now, the prices are coming down (I saw an
ATAPI CDRW 4-4-20 for $150 'tother day), and CDRW disks are also coming
down in price.

Barring a stunning price on the thing, I woudn't buy a CDR now, their
prices aren't so much lower than CDRW's to make up for losing RW
capability.

As far as software to write HFS disks on a PC...the only one I can think
of would be to get mkhybrid for a windows system.

here's a link (to a unix version, but should have all the info needed)

http://www.ps.ucl.ac.uk/~jcpearso/mkhybrid.html

It's a command line utility, and simply makes a cd image that then has
to be burnt with your CD utility, but unless something's come out since
last summer, this is about it.

This has the added bonus that it also will burn ISO9660 + Redrock
extensions, for long (unicode, iirc) filename support on ISO disks.
Neither Toast or EZ CD Creator (the software you're likely to get with
the drive) support ISO9660 at greater than the base level which is 8+3
filenames only.

Parker, Douglas (UNKNOWN) wrote:
>
> Help. I need your suggestions. My SCSI CD burner went south. Now with all
> the different options available out there, I'm looking for a smart purchase
> on a WIN/MAC CD/DVD writer/ reader/ rewritable. I need some pointers.
> Unfortunately, I'm limited to SCSI or parallel--there's no USB systems in
> the department. (Don't ask.)
>
> I have Toast on my Mac, and I'm going to scope out SW that will let me write
> HFS volumes on a WIN95/98 Pentium II. I know it's out there--WIN SW that
> writes Mac/WIN/**IX volumes.

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group


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