[G4] burning single CD with both Mac and PC software?????

[sr ferenczy]

i just got a 256 MB USB 2.0 flash drive from CompUSA (during so big 
sale) for $20. beats the heck out of cds, zips, email, etc for 
transferring files from work to home and vice versa. great 
recommendation!

sandor

On Jan 21, 2004, at 10:13 PM, Salahuddien Ayob wrote:

> hi,
>
> it sounded like what you really need is USB handy drive/flash drive 
> which can be obtained in various capacities ranging from 64MB all the 
> way to 1GB, depending on how much you want to spend.. what you really 
> need is just the USB port, and almost all PCs and Mac has USB port 
> these days...
>
> i have this
> http://www.apacer.com/apacer_english/product_html/handy_steno_ht202.asp
>
> you can probably find them in all compter shops.. generic brand and 
> all, even some of them can be used as mp3 players...
>
> personally, i wouldny worry about CDR/CDRW stuffs, what i use them 
> these days are only for backups... even my zip drive is sitting in my 
> G4 unpowered (took off the power cable to it).. i havent use it for 
> the last 3 years.. too slow to my patience...
>
> regards..
>
> -salah-
>
>>>> shannon at nuge.com 22/01/04 13:18 PM >>>
> If this doesn't work out the way I want it to,  then I'm just going to 
> use a Zip disk instead.  I think you can format those in an MSDOS
> format and that will be readable by both platforms.  If that is so, 
> then it is probably possible to just pop files off and on the Zip as I
> want with both computers with no trouble.  It would be worth the extra 
>  8 dollars or so.  I don't think I'll need that much space,  but CD's
> are cooler and I know from experience that i tend to go crazy when I  
> collect media and work on projects.  It might take 2 zips for this
> class.  What ya think?
>
> (P.S.  G4 listers,  sorry if carbon copying this to you is against 
> list rules or something,  but it just seems like something you might 
> wanna
> read)
>
> On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, at 12:16  AM, Mike Nugent wrote:
>
>>
>> On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, at 10:31  PM, Shannon Nugent wrote:
>>
>>> Do stuff on the mac
>>> backup stuff on CD
>>> transport to school
>>> copy files to "H" drive on PC and work on them
>>> Save files backup new work on CD (either writing over the old file or
>>> just adding a new file onto the CD)
>>>
>>> Is there any way I can do that without having to reformat the disc
>>> every time (both on PC and the Mac),  or run into some kind of >
>>> trouble?
>>>
>> All  that comes to mind is a UDF/packet-writing situation. That is,
>> the CD can be formatted on the PC in a special way so that it can
>> write files to it like it's a regular hard drive.  Only trouble is, I
>> don't know if the Mac can read them nowadays. (There used to be some
>> packet-writing software for Mac, although it had a reputation for not
>> being very stable.)
>>
>> PCs can write a regular (non-UDF) session to a CD, not close the disk,
>> and still be readable (and further writeable) on the PC. But if they
>> don't close the disk (thus making it no longer writeable), the Mac
>> probably can't even read it.
>>
>> Maybe such a CD would be readable in Virtual PC? Still I don't think
>> VPC comes with the software needed to write to a CD or CD-RW. I would
>> *imagine* you could get it from a PC user and install it in VPC. But I
>>  never tried burning CDs from VPC. Might work.
>>
>> If VPC can do this, then just use ISO-9660 format, which is
>> PC-compatible. The Mac can create, read, and write this format. But
>> remember--outside of VPC, the Mac might not read--or create--unclosed
>> PC CD sessions.
>>
>> Sounds like some experimentation is in order. (Hey, that's what the
>> 'RW' in CD-RW is for, right?)
>>
>>> And when I burn a CD on a mac the PC can read it,  right?
>>
>> A straight burn from the Finder will create a Mac/PC hybrid disk,
>> readable by either machine, but I don't know if Mac can burn
>> session-only in this format (or in straight ISO-9660, for that > 
>> matter).
>>
>> Let's see what kind of answers you get from others who may have
>> already been there.
>>
>> Meantime, have a look at http://www.macwindows.com/ to see if CD
>> burning is mentioned.
>>
>> Love you!
>>
>> -- Dad--
>>
>
>
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>> Sounds like some experimentation is in order. (Hey, that's what the
>> 'RW' in CD-RW is for, right?)
>>
>>> And when I burn a CD on a mac the PC can read it,  right?
>>
>> A straight burn from the Finder will create a Mac/PC hybrid disk,