Re: Multi-session resording CD-R on SGI computers

Alan Olson (awo@helix.nih.gov)
Fri, 23 Oct 1998 14:06:58 -0400

Dee -
Hmm. Interesting. How is this multi-session recording supposed to work?
I've not heard of this before. Does it record all the keystrokes, all the
data stored, the multi- part being for several users? I'll be interested
to hear. Sorry I can't be of any help yet.

- Alan O.

At 9:11 AM -0700 10/22/98, Dee-Hua Huang wrote:
>A while ago, there were discussion about using CD-R for data storage. We
>recently installed a CD-R system on SGI's O2 with HyCD Publisher software
>from
>Creative Digital Research. Initially, we were able to make few multi-session
>recording on a CD. About a month ago, the multi-session recording stopped
>functioning. If we recorded two sessions, the SGI's CDROM will only
>recognize
>the data of second session. If we put the CD into a PC, it would see the
>file
>system from the first session only. Our computer expert from Research
>Computing spent hours try to get this multi-session recording working for me
>without any success. Creative's Tech Support won't even talk to us unless we
>sign up for the $500.00 annual maintenance contract.
>
>If you use CD-R for data storage, were you able to do multi-session
>recording on
>a SGI system? Which software were you using?
>
>I will summarize the response and post it later.
>
>Best Regards,
>Dee

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