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High Capacity Cd-r unreadable on mac
Name: Joshua Date: August 4, 2000 at 10:58:42 Pacific
Comment:
My High Capacity Cd-R at 700mb is unreadable on my iMac. I burned on a Pc. When i put it in, i says unreadable
Name: lifekid Date: August 4, 2000 at 12:30:43 Pacific
Reply:
keep trying. i've had some problems with high capacity discs, but they eventually show up. i remember reading somewhere that earlier CD-Roms wouldn't be able to read CD-Rs, but i thought that ended around the 16x era. try it in another mac and see what happens.
good luck.
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Response Number 2
Name: bud Date: August 4, 2000 at 12:47:33 Pacific
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also make sure the foreign file access and iso900 control/extension panel are active. look in extension manager
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Response Number 3
Name: Trevor Johnson Date: August 4, 2000 at 15:10:47 Pacific
Reply:
there is even a better iso 9660 extension out there...its called joliet volume access and you can find it at versiontracker.com....it reads windows cd's much better with full file names.
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