[muglo] Re: Multisession burning with OS X

Thanks to everyone who has provided advice on multisession burning 
with OS 10.3 on my iBook G3.  Based on all this input, I am assuming 
the best route to go is to buy Toast and get an external CD burner. 
Questions/comments:

1.      Tee, you said on August 8 you bought a "new USB 2/Firewire 
ext 3.5/5.25 'Hot swapable' case and 'LG' 16 x layer DVD/CD burner 
for $135 incl taxes."  Where did you get this?  I don't understand 
all the technical details, but would this be suitable for my G3?

2.      Paul, you said on August 7 you had tried the multisession 
burning technique once using the method outlined at:

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/multisessioncds.html

The author indicates in some introductory remarks before providing 
the instructions that some people have had mixed results with 
multisession burning under Panther, which may be due to "either a bug 
in Panther or some anomaly in the systems of users who are having 
problems with such.  To date, we have not been able to ascertain a 
specific cause."

I have not had a chance to try the method recommended by The X Lab 
above, but if any people have had positive experiences with it, I'd 
be interested in hearing about them.  Paul:  I know you only tried it 
once, and then went back to just burning one session at a time.

At any rate, since it appears that multisession results using Apple's 
Disk Utility can be undependable, I'd rather go with a dependable 
system.  I have used Toast for years with OS 9.2.2 and an external 
burner and have been satisfied with the results.

However, at present I'm using both OS 9 and 10 systems on separate 
computers and would like to maintain this approach for some time, 
which will necessitate my getting another external burner and, I'm 
assuming, an updated version of Toast.

Leith

At 10:53 AM -0400 8/24/05, Eric Dunbar wrote:
>Apple's software does not do multisession CDs. There is a
>hack/application which can extend the in-built software to allow for
>multisession CDs but if memory serves me it is rather flakey and
>hasn't seen much development (I could be wrong... it'd be worth
>checking at www.versiontracker.com).
>
>I'm sure Toast will be mentioned in this thread but that's pretty much
>your only and best option. (it's a good piece of software).
>
>Eric.


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