[Coco] Re: Emulator problems

John E. Malmberg wb8tyw at qsl.net
Thu Sep 2 21:56:09 EDT 2004


David J Bush wrote:
>>>My drive is a CD-ROM drive. Am I supposed to have a CD-R drive
>>>to read this disc correctly?
>>
>>Some old CDROM drives won't read CD-R's properly.
> 
> Well, how old is "old" ? That's probably the main problem, and I have
> been intending to upgrade to DVD with CD-RW, CD-R, audio CD and CD-ROM
> compatibility anyway. In 1999 my system was new. No, I never tried a
> CD-R in it before. 

Some of the CD-ROMs made before 4x speeds were common would not read a 
burned cd-r.

Unless you use disk at once ISO9660 burning single session CD-ROMS, the 
CD-ROM may only be a coaster to other operating systems.

-John
wb8tyw(at)qsl.net
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