Can anyone confirm whether MS-DOS plays ball with CD/DVD-RW media?
Well, that all depends. If it's a rewritable disc used as standard media, then why should it matter? If you're using it with the UDF filesystem (such as with "packet writing" software), then not even Windows 9x can deal with that normally – but then, there's not much reason to use that in the first place.
And of course if you are using an ancient computer with a similarly ancient drive, then it might have trouble with rewritable media in general, regardless of the OS.
In older cd drives yes there are issues.
There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉
Most of my older 4x, 6x, 8x, 16x, etc cdroms do not like CDRW media so I quit using it long ago to store files.
Is not a DOS issue but an old drive/media compatibilty issue and if you use a newer CDR like 32x or better under DOS it should read the CDRW media just fine.
added: 1998 was the first year of CDRW readability by Plextors 12/20Plex and UltraPlex 32x, Mitsumi did not include CDRW readabilty until the 40X Max in 1999 according to their websites:
Plextor http://web.archive.org/web/19980113092757/htt … com/product.htm
Mits 32x no: http://web.archive.org/web/19990224033328/htt … _CDROMspec.html
Mits 40x yes: http://web.archive.org/web/19991005035504/htt … 1_cd40spec.html
Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun
