CDRW not recognize ?

[lionstorm]

not directly amiga related but still I need some info so lets start with my main web info site. My brother (with his pc)burned a session on a CDRW but I could not read it on my pc under win98 (drive is not ready). So I burned another session with my amiga and makecd and the pc still does not recognizes it. Does the CDRW has to be fixed in order to be readable by win98 ?
Lio

[SilvrDrgn]

Yes, at least the session has to be "fixed" in order for another computer to read the disc if you are putting it into a standard CD-ROM drive.  Another CD-RW drive should be able to read it without fixing the session.

[Thomas]

A CD-R/RW must be fixed to be recognized by a CD-ROM drive. There are some CD-ROM drives that recognize "open" CD-Rs, but not all. The lead-out information belongs to the CD-ROM standard. This has nothing to do with the operating system, at most with the firmware of the drive.

Bye,
Thomas

[lionstorm]

The session is fixed but not the CD-RW. I think I found the reason on makeCD website : any CD-Rom drive manufactured before 1997 can not read CD-RW disk. And this pc( I got for free from work, it is a P200)  is from 1996, with CD-ROM drive.
Lio

[SilvrDrgn]

And this pc( I got for free from work, it is a P200) is from 1996

Well, that would likely be the problem then.

[KennyR]

Since you're talking about closing sessions and stuff, I guess you aren't using UDFS packet writing stuff like DirectCD. But anyway, this is just yet another reminder that that this won't work on the Amiga. ;-)

And...I also have a P200 for 1996 and it works fine burning CDRW.