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You have cross-posted to the universe and e-mailed me privately. That is
excessive and probably objectionable to many afflicted with these
replies.

In my private reply, I suggested that if you plan to use UDF, you need
to understand UDF. There are many references available including the
CD-R FAQ, Adaptec's WWW site and the primer at my site. Please use them
instead of inflicting yourself on the computing universe.

Specifically, we are all still learning. The way UDF works, information
is vulnerable as long as a disc is in a drive, particularly if it is in
fixed-length packets.

Mike

Peter Barton wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 07 Oct 1999 11:28:42 -0700, Mike Richter <mrichter@cpl.net>
> wrote:
> >> The big problem is ejecting discs, and also formatting discs. DirectCD
> >> won't let a disc be ejected until it is closed
> >
> >Not so. It will not let you eject until the cached writes are completed.
> 
> Ah, OK, still learning :) Why don't cached writes complete within a
> few minutes though? I had my PC crash during shutdown today, and when
> I rebooted a directory I created on a CD had disappeared, presumably
> because the data was never physically written to the CD (even though
> it showed up in Explorer).
> 
> >There is nothing special here; Explorer, like any other s/w eject, will
> >hang until the cached writes are completed, then implement the command.
> 
> Actually Explorer DOES Eject, when all other s/w fails. My only
> assumption here is that DirectCD either has an Explorer extension, or
> some other patch, which calls the Adaptec eject.
> 
> >That said, I know of no programs or components to accomplish your
> >objective.
> 
> Somehow I knew this answer was coming. Does anyone know if other
> packages behave the same way? I'm guessing they probably do.
> 
> Thanks for the quick response Mike, it's good to at least have someone
> else's view on this and get some answers, even if they're not the ones
> I wanted to hear!
> 
> Peter Barton: pbarton@tig.com.au
> P.O. Box 364, Bulleen, VIC 3105, Australia
> http://www.madmaxmovies.com/ - Mad Max!

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