[Ti] is the UJ-816 DVD drive a CD-RW writer ?

[Steve Martin]

See if you can erase them using Disk Utility.

On Mar 19, 2004, at 5:00 AM, Dr. Trevor J. Hutley wrote:

>
> I have been using the UJ-816 DVD drive in my 15" Al-Powerbook to write 
> DVD-R and CD-R.
>
> Now, I am interested in using CD-RW disks.  My understanding is that I 
> can write to this kind of medium, then erase the content later. For 
> example, if I want to use the CD-RW disk to transfer data to a 
> colleague, but do not want to archive that data.....
>
> So yesterday, I bought some CD-RW disks (Sony).
>
> I just burnt a few files on one of them, just as a test.
>
> But they now seem permanently on the CD.
>
> I am now wondering whether this UJ-816 is a CD Rewritable writer, or 
> whether it simple treats CD-RW as CD-R disks.
>
> Or am I doing something worng?
> Is there something else, not obvious, that I should be doing to use 
> the CD-RW capability?
>
> Sorry if these seem very simple questions, but this has kind of taken 
> me by surprise.
>
> Trevor
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