[softwarelist] Re: CD transfer

On Wednesday 21 November 2007 09:13:15 Martin Wuerthner wrote:
> In message <4743C674.3010702@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>           Peter Prewett <pprewett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I know it is a little of topic.
> >
> > I have to transfer jpegs from the PC to Ovation on my RiscPC.
> >
> > I burnt a CD and the RiscPC showed that it was empty though
> > CDBurn says that it has 250Mb.
>
> Any correctly burnt ISO CD can be read by your RiscPC. So, either your
> CD drive is broken or you have made a mistake when burning the CD. At
> a guess, you did not create an ISO CD. On re-writable media, Windows
> burning programs offer an alternative format (UDF) that allows the CD
> to be treated like a hard disc. RISC OS does not support UDF CDs. So,
> try again and make sure you select ISO format. You might also want to
> make sure that the CD is finalized/fixated/closed, whichever way your
> burning program calls it (though this is not normally necessary for
> RISC OS to read the CD).

The other day I wanted to load some files from an Acorn CD onto my Linux PC, 
but I couldn't get it to mount. Is there a specific format of CD-ROM for 
Acorn (RISC OS) machines? JOOI the CDs were the Acorn Replay ones which I 
doubt I would be able to view in Linux anyway?

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