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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Back-up puzzle
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 21:51:06 -0500
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At 09:01 PM 9/4/03 -0500, Paul E. Lawrence wrote:
>At 08:53 PM 9/4/2003 -0500, Darrell A. Martin wrote:
>>Lots of systems have CD-R or CD-RW drives ("burners") as D:, including
>>mine. A more important question is whether I have been completely
>>oblivious to a key feature. Does TMG, any version, have the ability to
>>back up *directly* to a CD-Recordable (CD-R) drive? I know if the right
>>drivers (packet-writing software) are installed, you might be able to
>>back up to a CD-Rewritable (CD-RW) drive, although that might not always
>>be the case either.
>>
>>Obviously you are right about a CD-ROM drive ("CD reader"), which can
>>only read files from CDs, not put files on them.
>>
>>So what's the scoop?
>
>I was just trying to make sure she wasn't confusing the drives...I know
>the drive letters vary on various systems but I would think that normally
>if you have both the reader is D: and the burner is E:, but not
>necessarily. Actually on my system the reader is E: and the burn is F:,
>the D: drive is a removable (zip) drive....
>
>I had no problems backing up from TMG4 or TMG5 directly to the CD-Burner
>drive but I always use CD-RW discs...don't know if using CD-R discs would
>cause problems or not....
>
>Paul E. Lawrence

Hi, Paul:

I have Roxio DirectCD ver. 5.10 loaded and running on my PC, which has a
CD-RW drive. Neither TMG 4.0d nor TMG 5.09 are the least bit successful in
backing up to a blank CD-R disc. It may be technically possible to prepare
a CD-R disc in a CD-RW drive (leaving it "open") so an application program
can write directly to it, but my impression is either that it is not
possible, or that it creates discs that cannot be read by anything but a
CD-RW drive. The geekish distinction is between UDF 1.5 and ISO 9660 formats.

I am *not* talking about backing up first to a hard drive, and then
dragging and dropping the resulting file to a CD. That is a different
situation entirely, and its success will depend on the hardware and
software that one has installed.

Darrell


Darrell Allen MARTIN
a native Vermonter currently in exile in Addison, Illinois
www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy/

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