>>I can't get CD Direct formated disks to be reaccessible.
I have no explanation for this. I have not tried CD-direct
on CD-RW media. It's true that relatively few CD drives
will read the packet-write CD until it's closed in
ISO 9660 format; some of my drives will, some won't.
I believe my Plextor won't.
However, it sounds like you're just re-inserting
the CD into the Yamaha itself. If this is true,
you certainly should be able to read the data back.
I have had no trouble doing so; haven't closed the
disk either. This is strictly CD-R media, though.
In truth, I have neither burned an ordinary CD-R
with Easy CD Creator nor tried RW at all since
I got this drive, simply because I've been so
pleased with the ease of CD Direct. I believe
I have expounded my notions on CD-R vs CD-RW for
backups before. Media rotation? We don't need no
stinking media rotation <gg>.
As far as final results go,
I don't know of any reason at all to use CD-Direct
rather than Easy CD Creator other than personal
preference.
For scripting backups, though, I wouldn't
want to try it without the packet-writing capability.
I'd hate to try to poke Easy Cd Creator from a script.
Also you can do a file save from an application
to the CD with CD-Direct. If the app is WinZip, for
instance, this is a Good Thing To Have. Better
be sure the Winzip work directory is on a hard drive,
though <g>.
BTW, there is a beta WinZip command line
interface available from the Winzip web site.
Haven't tried it, but for scripting backups to CD-R
this looks good. Aside from the obvious data
compression, other advantages to backing up to an
archive are name-space preservation and write
attribute preservation.
Of course the good backup packages will do all of
this too, but my needs are relatively modest and
I like to control things myself. 'Course I haven't
done it yet either ... <G>.
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