Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! Interesting...I have no experience burning CDs, only with using read only drives, but I do now have CD burner, and a DVD one as well. Anyway, I've not had a drive failure with CD, but have had several with 3.5 in diskette drives, not to mention after a few dozen uses the diskettes reliability leaves much to be desired. For backing up small amounts of data, diskettes were OK, but I would not want to backup my Dell's 160 gb hard drive with them, even though it isn't very full. Wiz Glenn Gilbreath Jr. Wizard57M http://www.geocities.com/wizard57m/index.html -----Original Message----- From: "Eric S. Emerson" <wildrice5@xxxxxxxx> To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: 12/15/2008 4:14 PM Subject: [arachne] Re: INFO NEEDED FOR POSSIBLE FUTURE DOS/ARACHNESUPPORT Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! Greg M., Some CD drives will only read "plain" CD's. The OS and drivers also effect what the CD drive will read. My W$98 computer will not read multisession burned CD's properly even though it will burn them just fine. As I said, CD's do NOT behave as predictably as FDD's. Eric On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:56:56 +100 "Bastiaan Edelman" <bastiaan.pa3ffz@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! > > You are NOT using re-writable CD's, are you?? > I had a lot of problems with them and consulting glennmcc > who helped me with burning CD's in DOS... ONLY one-way > CD's can be used with the programs he once supplied. > > Regards, Bastiaan > > > On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:01:40 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote: > ;Text preceeding quote o > > > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! > > > On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:10:13 -0800, Eric S. Emerson wrote: > > >> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! > > >> Hi Greg M., > >> I find that sometimes after burning > >> a CD that it appears blank and the CD/DVD drive > >> has to be re-initialized. Sometimes just opening and > >> closing the drive tray fixes it...other times a reboot > >> is required. I assume it has something to do with > >> the driver. It happens with both my DOS 486 computer > >> and W$n computers...and...it happens with both > >> brand new drives and older drives > > > I have tried reading the disk with the burner drive and also with > the > > non-burner drive on the same computer, and each time it comes up > empty. > > > Except that if I try to burn it again, I get the message that > "this disk > > contains data. Do you want to erase it?" and the same message again > > after it has been fast-erased and fully-erased... > > > Got real doubts about the software I'm using, or possibly the > hardware, > > or possibly both..... > > > Unfortunately the CD drive on the DOS comp has now ceased to read > any > > disks. I may have to open it up and manually clean the laser as the > > cleaning disk will not work under DOS. > > > (BTW, I am using proper read-write blank disks) > > > Go placidly amid the noise and haste, > > and remember what peace there may be in silence. > > "Desiderata", Max Ehrmann, copyright 1952. > > > ,-./\ > > / \ From Greg Mayman, in beautiful Adelaide, South Australia > > \_,-*_/ "Queen City of The South" 35d 01'44"S 138d 32'13"E > > v > > > Arachne at FreeLists > > -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS -- > > > > ================================================================= > This mail is composed and sent by the Arachne Browser for DOS. > > This is Arachne A4D version... > ================================================================= > > -- Arachne;A4e;1q:20 > > Arachne at FreeLists > -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS -- > > ____________________________________________________________ Click here to find the satellite television package that meets your needs. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/PnY6rw2MVW1LxC81U8bJeeucOsS8vwUiVd2JXqRXJzm8hLyEV0puU/ Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS -- Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --