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David,
I am in a similar situation, I am looking at getting
a CD burner to hook up to one of my Macs. Currently
the two drives I am looking at are:
Sony Spressa Professional (SCSI) CRX145S/XS
With Discribe software by charismac.
APS CD-RW 12x4x32 SCSI Pro
With Toast software by Adaptec.
I believe that the current versions of both Discribe and Toast
will write HFS, ISO 9660, or hybrid HFS/ISO 9660. I also believe
that the current versions of both packages will write Bootable
HFS CDs.
I know about the problems with the USB and FireWire versions
of the Spressa, but I have not heard of any problems with the
SCSI version. I believe that I have seen reports of problems
with other USB and FireWire CD burners. It seems like maybe
the technology in not quite there yet.
I believe Toast is the most widely used CD burning software on the
Mac, I also know that Adaptec's reputation in the Mac community
is not as good as it might be. I have seen several complaints
about the latest update to Toast on http://www.macintouch.com
I hope this is useful information and I would certainly appreciate
any other pointers that people on the list might have.
Harris
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> From: David Boyson <davidboyson@compuserve.com>
> Subject: CD read Write for Mac running Softwindows
> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:09:33 -0800
>
> Hi,
>
> After "lurking" for months on this list I finally came up with my own
> question.
>
> I need to add a CD recorder to my Mac G4 system. Most of the
> other users in
> the work group use PC's running Win98 or 2000. I need to be able
> to produce
> CD's that run on either MacOS or Windows machines. Any suggestions? I
> currently run Softwindows v5 with Win98 second edition, and MacOS 9.
>
> Ideally, I would like to use the CD RW under either operating system and
> produce Disks for either platform. If I have to choose one, it
> would be the
> MacOS.
>
> Any advantage to using a Firewire CD-RW? Or is USB the way to go?
>
> Thanks,
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