Re: FN-FORUM: Reading PC formatted CDROMs on a Mac

date posted 1st June 2005 13:58

Hi Aaron,

At 6:41 pm +0000 31/5/05, Aaron Brailsford wrote:
>On 18:35 Tue 31 May, Colin Rainsforth wrote:
>> MacOS9 so maybe this is a a new proprietary MSXP format for which
>> it's not familiar with?
>
>Can you find out how he wrote it? IIRC, XP includes 'packet writing' by
>default, which, IIRC, writes some bobbins proprietary format that's not
>really ISO9660 (which is what the Mac will mount, I imagine)..

This is what I figured and is the most likely scenario. The CDs are
actually a labelled product but look a bit dodgy to me as they are in
fact Memorex golds with laser printed labels stuck (off centre) on
the the disk faces. Hardly indicative of a professional software
product with proper CD mastering.

The 'product' came in a sealed box (DVD case) but already has
someone's finger prints on them. I may try cleaning them as Andy
suggests, but I guess I'll have to bounce them.

Thanks to everyone for your help.

ColinR
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