[Orion27]

Read a rant on another forum that 10.2
does not allow CD burns for cross platform
use. Apparently can only be read on Macs.
10.1 apparently does allow cross platform burns. Can anyone confirm
this?

[Nobody]

That doesn't make sense to me. Both 10.1 and 10.2 use the ISO 9660 format on their CD-Rs. That should be readable on any platform.

[Orion27]

If I were more technically based I would be
better a dismissing rants which were unjustified. Below is the full quote from
the other forum. This is how rumours get
started:
"F am I pissed! I installed 10.2 and I've discovered that the disc burner won't make hybrid HFS/ISO discs anymore! What's the f point of making cd's if you can't read them on other computers? Jobs is a f MORON if he thinks this is a feature!
$129 down the *ing drain, now I'll have to reformat and re-install 10.1 again".

I apologise for this posted quote. I am
just trying to educate myself.

Orion27 Mac user from 1987

[Nobody]

That guy is a moron...10.2 does burn cross-platform CD"s, and even if it didn't that's no reason to dump Jaguar. There are other alternatives out there, like Toast.

--Wes

[Nobody]

The issue, as far as I know, is not that you can't do cross-platform burning, but that it was off by default in 10.2 (don't know if that is actually true, though).

[Nobody]

So how do you "undefault" it , so the default returns to cross platform?

[Orion27]

Well which is it? Toast, it can burn cross
platform or it can't, or how to toggle default
if that is the case.Come on guys, I know you
can do it?? images/icons/confused.gif

[Nobody]

Toast burns cross platform, definitely, and if I have to use it, I'm fine with that, especially since you can tell the MAc to open Toast when you install a blank CD-R. I would just like to know if we can change the default for the OS.

[Orion27]

apparently this subject has migrated to another thread. I would think this subject
would have generated more interest. Still
on final word on the subject here.I post
the url given in the other thread to
an Apple discussion board on the subject of
No cross platform compatibility vis a vis
Mac burned CD's from the finder. http://discussions.i...2d.14@.3bb96177

[Nobody]

Just read the apple discussions thread....

All I can say is WHY?? Why take away functionality (and a standard, no less)? What is Apple smoking now?

[Nobody]

Has anyone actually tried this themselves? I don't have Jag yet (waiting for Amazon order), so I can't test for this. But it seems that both threads have people assuming this to be true when no one has actually found out.

[Nobody]

Sounds like a new iApp for burning may be coming but I just got used to finder burning for my windows friends and now this....a step backwards..not Apple's style.

[Nobody]

We don't really need an iApp for this. Just put it back in the Finder, and let's get on with it.

I did send a message to Apple via their feedback page, and I suggest the rest of you do the same. It worked for spring-loaded folders, after all.

[Replicant]

I just dragged some files to a blank CD-R, then dragged the CD-R to the "burn" icon on the dock. When the burn was done, I took the disc to a Win 2000 Pro machine, and read the disk just fine. I didn't do any type of configuration beforehand. images/icons/confused.gif

Machine is a 600mhz combo iBook with a clean install of Jaguar.