Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! Hi Brian, Sorry, but I am not the one to ask for advice on burning disks w/DOS. I have burned one or 2 using glennmcc's directions but only as practice/trial. I was responding to Greg M.'s problems with CD's. I find CD and DVD drives to be rather unreliable compared to the good ole FDD. BUT...handy for backup !! Eric On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:33:56 -0500 "Brian C. Murphy" <BCMURPHY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! > > On December 12 2008 Eric Said, "I find that sometimes after burning > a CD > that it appears blank and the CD/DVD Drive has to be reinitialized" > > "Sometimes just opening and closing the drive fixes it ... other > times a > reboot is required. I assume it has something to do with the > driver. > "IT HAPPENS WITH BOTH MY DOS 486 COMPUTER and my $wincomputer and it > > happens with brand new drives and older drives. > > If I read you correctly, Eric, you are burning CD's from DOS. I > know > Glenn Mcc had come close to burning CD's from DOS. If you are > really > doing so, would you be willing to thoroughly document the procedures > and > the hardware and software and put it on the Arachne list so that the > > rest of us can attain the ability of burning CD's under DOS? > > Brian Murphy > BCMURPHY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Arachne at FreeLists > -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS -- > > ____________________________________________________________ Click to consolidate debt and lower month expenses. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/PnY6rw2PBHT2FWqfT4TdeVOV3ikJDSqws39CPyT1zmaPG7lcnD6Oo/ Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --