TSGL: cd read/write troubles

[Ron Brunton]

With CD-RW or DVD-RW media, InCD works, after formatting, to allow writing
to the disk as if it were a large floppy disk or small hard drive; that is,
it is simply another place to save files. The same thing happens with CD-R
media from the user's perspective. The difference in the latter case is that
if you wrote a 1 MB file to a CD-R 640 times (roughly speaking) using InCD
the disk would be full although only showing one file. Doing the same thing
with a CD-RW disk, the disk would still have 639 MB available.

Just to test how InCD behaves with blank CD-R media I inserted a blank CD-R
disk into my CD/DVD-RW drive. A Windows Explorer window opened for the
drive. I then right-clicked and selected "New/Folder". InCD popped up a
message box in the lower right hand corner of my screen indicating it was
formatting the disk. When that completed (30 seconds or so) I had a folder
on the disk called "New Folder". I selected the folder and pressed function
key F2 (to rename) and changed the name to "Test". I then dragged a 35 MB
file from my hard drive into this "Test" folder. Another message box popped
up showing the familiar "Copying" message and progress bar and the file was
copied to the CD-R disk.

In other words, InCD operates transparently with no active involvement from
me to get it to do its thing.

Hope this helps.

Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of Joe Titone
Sent: December 11, 2006 12:36 PM
To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
Subject: Re: TSGL: cd read/write troubles

At 04:00 PM 12/4/2006, Ron Brunton <rbrunton at accesswave.ca>  wrote:
>... I've had a bunch of trouble over the years with CD burning software. I
>switched from Roxio to Nero because I was getting too many coasters with
>buffer overflow errors, even though the Roxio packet writing was very
smooth
>and did allow CD-R disks to act like CD-RW (it's a multi-session trick
>rather than really turning CD-R disks into CD-RW disks). Lately, I ran into
>a problem where the RAID controller appears to conflict with Nero's packet
>writing software, InCD. I'm not using RAID, so I just disabled that
software
>and things seem to be OK.

I'm new to Nero after having used Roxio's Drag-to-Disc for many years.  I 
have InCD in my system tray.  How does InCD work?  E.g., I bring up Nero's 
SmartStart Center, hover over Data and then Format/Prepare Rewritable 
DVD.  The box immediately to the left says: Open With: InCD 
Control.  Clicking/Double Clicking on either Format/Prepare Rewritable DVD 
or Open With: InCD Control does nothing.

The other parts of Nero seem (with some exceptions probably due to the fact 
that CD/DVD doesn't behave like a hard drive) to work fine.

Joe Titone
tertia at earthlink.net 
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