@DoomMaster
All I want to do is burn SOFTWARE (games, productivty, MODs, pictures, etc) onto Amiga formatted CDs, so that I do not have to change the names of the files. I want to be able to run Amiga programs from the CD or copy the folders containing those programs to my Amiga hard disk.
There is no such thing as "Amiga formatted CD". However, most Amiga CD mastering programs support ISO RockRidge extensions (
SUSP, IEEE P1281,
RRIP IEEE P1281), these allow upto 30 char filenames, mixed-case names, and storing amiga file attributes and comments.
To stay most compatible you probably want to use Joliet extensions. This allows you to read the files properly on Amiga and Windoze (and Mac). Then you can do the burning on your Windoze P4 aswell. You don't get amiga attributes or comments then, though.
All I want to do is format Amiga CDs and copy files to the CDs. What I already have should be MORE then enough to do this.
Amiga CD-R[W] burning doesn't (currently) support packet writing. Even if it did, your A2000HD would have too little resources for it.
For a technician you seem to have little clue on how CD-R(W) burning works. On low end systems (like your A2000HD), you first construct the ISO Image file containing prebuilt filesystem and all the data. Once ready, the actual burning just involves starting the burn operation and feeding the drive with the data from the image file. High end systems (like my A1200 and Pegasos, and your P4) manage to construct the imagefile on the fly and thus no temporary imagefile is needed.
CD-RW can be erased, but this is not formatting in traditional sense, the medium is just initialized to empty state (no filesystem is created here).
Packet writing is different issue, but since there is no software to do it and your A2000HD is too slow for it anyway, you can forget it.
