burning cds for a mac

[Milenko]

I need to burn some data onto a cd on a pc and be able to read it in a mac. I tried my normal method and the mac says it can't read the cd.

I'm pretty sure this can be done, maybe i'm missing a step or something. Anyone have any experience with this?

I'm using adaptec easy cd creator 5, and I also have access to cdrwin.

[Wayward Clam]

Couple of thoughts:

I think it might not be that you are using a PC-formatted disk, but that you are using a BURNED PC=formatted disk. Have you tried a normal PC CD in the drive? Most Macs can recognize them, but yours might not be able to.

What kind of Mac is it? How old, and do you know what speed/kind the CDROM is? A lot of older CDROMs won't read burned disks at all, regardless of platform.

[Milenko]

they are g4s - not sure what speed the drivers are, but they're dvd-roms, not cd.

they can read a regular pc cd (not burned). I suppose it's possible that they can't read burnt cds, but dvd drives ought to be able to do that!!

[Wayward Clam]

Ok, then that is definitely not your problem. G4s equipped with DVDs should have no trouble reading burned CDs under normal circumstances.

Only other thing I would know to double check is the CD itself, just to be sure it isn't a coaster. Is it readable on the original PC and on other PCs?

Sorry I don't have more to offer...

[Milenko]

[quote]Originally posted by Wayward Clam:
<strong>Ok, then that is definitely not your problem. G4s equipped with DVDs should have no trouble reading burned CDs under normal circumstances.

Only other thing I would know to double check is the CD itself, just to be sure it isn't a coaster. Is it readable on the original PC and on other PCs?

Sorry I don't have more to offer...</strong><hr></blockquote>


It's perfectly readable on other PCs, that's what has me stumped as well. Thanks a lot for yer input though.

Anyone else have any problems with this?

[Penman]

only thing I can think of is that PCs dont copy resource forks for mac applications so the macs might not know that they're meant to be executable etc. They should be able to read documents etc though without problems from normal PC formatted Cds though.

Only thing I can think of (if you dont have a mac with a writer on it) is to try copying the files etc from a mac share on an NT server.

that's honestly the only help I can give !

if it's help at all!