Reading CDRW with directcd

Hi,
is there a way for reading CDRW disks formatted with directcd in a standard CDROM drive in an Amiga?

Enrique

[Paul_Gadd]

No, i recommend ditching that no good directCD and that destroyware "Easy cd creator" aswell.

[alx]

noooooo, not "easy" CD Creator :-o

I had a version bundled with my CD-RW drive - success rate was about 20% :madashell:

Then I switched to Nero :-D

[Paul_Gadd]

I use Nero for nearly everything and that program has a crappy  looking GUI but the amount it does is worth it.

Easy Cd creator came with the burner and is a good program but the bad part is when it destroys/corrupts aspi drivers when removing or updating then just causes a lot of other burning programs to not work properly, clearly not worth the hassle and messing about.

Yes, now I know. It came with my CDRW, which I use in the pc to save some backups of my Amiga, but since I changed the pc HD windows hangs every time I insert a formatted CDRW. Returning to the old HD and installation didn't help.

Now I'm reading those CDRWs at work using a CDROM but I'm tired of copying to floppies and them to my Amiga, so I was wondering if it could be done with my Amiga's CDROM

Enrique

[Paul_Gadd]

Just make a data disk with a CDRW then use it on the Amiga, copy files over etc then erase it with the burning software, easy to do with less hassle than using Mickey Mouse software.

[jj]

there are two things you need to consider

1) does your cd-rom on the amiga support CDRW's .older drivers will not read them due to CDRW's being less reflective.

2) it depends on what cd filesystem you are using on the amiga. I have a powerflyer and I have never had any trouble reading any disks made by easy cd 5 platinum.

also I don't no what version of easy cd all these people are refering, but easy cd 5 platinum is a good program.

[Paul_Gadd]

@JJ

also I don't no what version of easy cd all these people are refering, but easy cd 5 platinum is a good program.

I said it was a good burning program but destroys/corrupts aspi drivers, that is a well known fact and even Roxio said it would be fixed in the future versions (has it been?).

[KennyR]

Not this one again...

You can't use a CDRW created using a packet-writing filesystem on a PC. You need the burn the CDRW in one go, like it was a CDR. Only then will it work.

[jj]

@Kennyr

Yes this one again, and guess what, again somone has got it wrong.  IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHAT FILESYSTEM U ARE USING ON THE AMIGA

[KennyR]

Yes this one again, and guess what, again somone has got it wrong. IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHAT FILESYSTEM U ARE USING ON THE AMIGA

A natural mistake, if it is one. If the CDs are burned with UDFS, no filesystem on the Amiga will read them. As for other CDs burned properly, I've never had a problem using CacheCDFS, AmiCDFS, AllegoCDFS or the cdfs built into PowerUp or MOS. How can I know that yet another person hasn't tried to use Adaptec stuff? It's by far the commonest mistake.

 @ JJ
The CDROM works fine with every CD I´ve tried so far, even when used before in the pc.

I´m using Eyetech´s EZCD-SE A1200 buffered interface, with IDEFix 97.

When the CD-RW is inserted it is mounted as UDFReader:   and in it I can see autorun.inf and udfrinst.exe

@ KennyR

Well, if that is the case, I´ll take off the internal LS-120 from my home pc and use it for a while at work. I have another in my Amiga.

I can use the LS-120 disks for that and save the CD-RW disks until OS4 is ready. Thanks for the info.

Enrique

[Desmon]

@Paul_Gadd

I use Nero for nearly everything and that program has a crappy  looking GUI but the amount it does is worth it.

Easy Cd creator came with the burner and is a good program but the bad part is when it destroys/corrupts aspi drivers when removing or updating then just causes a lot of other burning programs to not work properly, clearly not worth the hassle and messing about.

I'll concur. I got a copy of slEasyCD with my burner and it was installed just long enough for me to realise what a POS it was. I soon found Nero to replace it with, but recently I've replaced that with DiskJuggler.

DJ's interface is a little harder to get your head around, and will make non-compliant CDs at the drop of a hat, but it doesn't rely on Win's ASPI drivers so the possibilities are endless.
Making hybrid ISO9660/Audio/HPFS disks is even possible with DJ.

On top of that, it's the only program out there that'll drive the multi disk jukebox/robot I use at work.   ;-)

[Desmon]

@emeck040270

The CDROM works fine with every CD I´ve tried so far, even when used before in the pc.

I´m using Eyetech´s EZCD-SE A1200 buffered interface, with IDEFix 97.

When the CD-RW is inserted it is mounted as UDFReader:   and in it I can see autorun.inf and udfrinst.exe

This is a fault of the software you're using to write the CDRW. (EasyCd) Those two files are the only thing you'll ever see, as they're put there by EasyCD to allow another Windows machine to load the udfrinst.exe program. "UDF Reader Installer.exe"

Read the advice above. Write the CDRW just as you would a CDR and your Amiga should see the whole disk.