| How to Tell if the Hack Works:
1. After patching your copy of DirectCD 1.0.4 or 1.05, you need to see if the 2. If the pencil appears, the next thing to do is to put a Fresh, Blank, CD-R or CD-RW disk into your drive. You should then get a dialog box that asks if you want to initialize the disk as a DirectCD format. Initialize the disk. It should now appear on the desktop, and you should be able to do Finder copies to it. If there are problems, one thing to check is that the drive has the latest firmware installed. You get firmware updates from the drive manufacturer's website. Unfortunately, in order to update firmware, you may have to join forces with the dark side (hook drive up to a Wintel PC) to flash to the current firmware revision. Note 1: The disk you use must be a Fresh, Blank, CD-R or CD-RW disk. You cannot use a previously used CD-RW disk, for such purposes. Note 2: For CD-RW users: You will not be able to recover space on a CDRW disk, by dragging a file to the trash. This is because DirectCD for Mac does not support fixed-length packet writing which allows "random erase". To recover space, one must reinitialize the disk. For more info see: 3. When done adding files to your UDF disk, you must "close" it in order for regular CD-ROM drives to read it with the assistance of Adaptec's UDF Reader Extension. To close a UDF disk, you must have it in the CD-R drive and open the DirectCD control panel. Select option to close disk. Let DirectCD do its thing. Now you have a UDF disk that can be read in any multi-read CD-ROM drive that has Adaptec's UDF reader extension installed. Contact Information: Email: Email Me |
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