just took The Plunge, was Re: [geeks] Recommendations?

[Andrew Weiss]

On Sunday, April 7, 2002, at 06:07 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On April 7, David Cantrell wrote:
>>> Well I guess what I really meant was, about eight people have told
>>> me not to use the OS-supplied stuff, and I couldn't find it anyway. :)
>>
>> It's built in to the Finder.  Put a blank disk in and you'll get asked 
>> what
>> format you would like to make it.  Then it'll appear on the desktop 
>> and you
>> can drag files to it (or, I think, copy them from the command line).  
>> That's
>> really a disk image you're editing, it doesn't get burnt until you 
>> eject
>> the disk.  It Works For Me, although I'll agree it ain't as flexible as
>> something like Toast or cdrecord.
>
>   Oh, cool!
>
>   Everyone says it's bad news, though...anybody have any specifics?
>
>     -Dave
>
It doesn't support SCSI burners of any kind.  My burner is SCSI so my 
burner is unsupported.  Is your burner IDE or Firewire?

Andrew