Reading CD-Rs burned by Wintel users

[SuperMatt]

I have a friend who is having a hard time reading CD-Rs burned by her PC using friends. She has a 15" powerbook G4/867. Is she doing something wrong? Or does OS X not support these proprietary format disks? I supposed those wintel users could burn ISO-compatible disks, but they probably have no clue how. Is there a utility for reading these types of disks? I know there were some for OS 9, but are there any for X?

Matthew

 

[monktus]

What kind of format are the CDs in, you don't seem to say. Are they FAT32? From what I know, I think osx can read FAT32 disks. I've done it with Windows file sharing but not with CDs.

 

[rhg]

CDs which you burn on a PC usually are in ISO format with the Joliet extension to support long file names. Mac OS X can perfectly read these CDs, so I suspect the problem elsewhere.

 

[gastroboy]

The problem I suspect is with CD-RWs.

PCs have a method of formatting these to effectively use them like floppies (something I wish the Mac could do). This format is incomprehensible to the Mac.

Also some of the Apple CD drives had trouble reading CD-RWs period. Another of those expensive Apple peripherals they got at firesale prices after they were rejected by the PC clone manufacturers as old technology.