[WinMac] Re: CD/DVD help

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Thu, 18 Nov 1999 12:53:59 -0500

        Well Bruce, does $500 delivered (or shipped sound like a good price...
INCLUDING software for Mac? I'll open it up to anyone here on the list...

        Below is the text of a note back to Douglas offering him the extra unit on
my shelf, including the OEM 95/98 and the purchase-only Mac versions of the
software...

> Dear Douglas:
>
> I bought two Toshiba DVD/RAM decks for a customer who wanted one each for
her G3 and 98 boxes, but decided she only wanted one for her 98 box. I also
purchased the Software Architects DVD-RAM Tuneup software for Mac @ $99,
but that is now unused as well.
>
> I'll sell you the DVD/RAM - Still sealed in the box - along with a blank
DVD/RAM & included 95/98 Write DVD-RAM software and Mac license for DVD-RAM
Tuneup all for $500 with a P.O.. And if you're here in the Delaware Valley,
I'll drop it off for you - I'm an ex-RCA Camden jock! :)
>
> Yours truly,
> Daniel L. Schwartz,
> Electrical Engineer.
>
> Dan's MacOS Consulting
> 239 Great Road
> Maple Shade, NJ 08052-3044
>
> Voice: 856-642-1786 <-- Note new area code (was 609)
> Fax: 413-451-4391
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>

At 10:03 AM 11/18/99 -0700, Bruce J. wrote:
>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.

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