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"olfart" <olfart65@excite.com> wrote in message
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> "Phred" <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:bs30sr$91juv$1@ID-151056.news.uni-berlin.de...
> > In article <3FE46E79.20B51517@teleport.com>,
> > ms<msa@nospa.com> wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > >In the CDRW format, have you used Imation disks and results? I have
> had
> > >good results with Imation CDR disks, have but not tried yet same in
> > >rewritable format.
> >
> > I've been using Imation CD_RW for routine daily backup for a couple
> of
> > years without problems.  One disk lasts about 6 months to a year
> > before it's full, so only gets written about 20 to 50 times before
> > it's "retired" as I have one for each day of the week (and always
> copy
> > "yesterday" and "today" [ using good old XCOPY /s/d  ;-) ] so I end
> up
> > with two copies of everything).  Also been using those Imation
> CD_RWs
> > for my "Monthly" backups.  So that's now another couple of dozen.
> >
> > All that said, I've recently switched to Imation CDRs formatted for
> > "drag and drop" etc. from Windows/DOS stuff as someone in one of the
> > cdrom newsgroups must have convinced me that was a more reliable way
> > to go.  8-)  The main problem with this is that these CDRs can't be
> > read on other machines that don't have appropriate software
> installed
> > whereas the CD_RWs can be.
> >
> >
> > Cheers, Phred.
> >
>
> You can download UDF Reader from the Roxio site - put it on a floppy
> and install it on the other machines
>
>
What I do is to just copy UDF Reader (it's a small file) right onto the
CD..just in case.
So far, it works fine.  Also, how you close it makes a difference.  You
must make sure
you close it to be read on ANY CD Rom reader rather than only those with
UDF.  But
I've found the above mention tactic to work fine.  BTW, not all CD-RW's
are readable
on ALL machines.  They all have their quirks.  But the method used to
close it matters.

Helen