Toast 9 - How to Burn DVDs?

[vja4Him]

Does anyone use Toast 9 for saving files to DVDs? I just purchased a LaCie d2 DVD/RW Drive, and need some help ...

Several years back I tried burning DVDs using the internal DVD drive on my iBook, and what happened is that everytime I burned files to the DVDs, I couldn't go back and add more files. So I was only able to save files one time, then the DVD was no longer usable for burning files.

I know there is a setting that will allow you to continue saving a few files at a time. How exactly do I do that?

Would that be the Write Session mode?

I have the LaCie DVD drive connected to my iBook G4, running OS X 10.4.11.

 

[John Doe 57]

Several years back I tried burning DVDs using the internal DVD drive on my iBook, and what happened is that everytime I burned files to the DVDs, I couldn't go back and add more files. So I was only able to save files one time, then the DVD was no longer usable for burning files.

Because you were using DVD-R instead of DVD-RW. R = Writable and RW = Rewritable. Purchase some DVD-RWs and you'll be able to erase and reuse the DVDs.

More Information:
http://www.videohelp.com/dvd

 

[JNickyJJ]

you need rewriteable dvds to be able to burn to them again

they are more expensive though

 

[vja4Him]

I remember when I used my (now ancient) SCSI LaCie CD burner, I was able to use CDR (not CDRW), and I could save files to the CD, then come back and save more files another day, and so on ...

I figured out how to save files like that without mounting additional images each time I saved.

I can't believe that my new LaCie DVD burner is not able to do what the older models could do ....

 

[vja4Him]

you need rewriteable dvds to be able to burn to them again

they are more expensive though

So, are you saying that my new Philips Double Layer DVD+R disks can only be burned one time, and that's it! So even if you only burn 5MB of files, you cannot burn any more files on that disk?

My older LaCie SCSI CD burner was able to burn to CDs as many times as I wanted, without having to erase any files at all. I could add files many times, and only mount one disk image too!

There must be a way to do this with my DVD+R disks ....

 

[RedRaven571]

I think you have to deselect a box that 'closes' the DVD/CD, preventing additional files from being written to it.

 

[Darth.Titan]

So, are you saying that my new Philips Double Layer DVD+R disks can only be burned one time, and that's it! So even if you only burn 5MB of files, you cannot burn any more files on that disk?

My older LaCie SCSI CD burner was able to burn to CDs as many times as I wanted, without having to erase any files at all. I could add files many times, and only mount one disk image too!

There must be a way to do this with my DVD+R disks ....

The others here are misunderstanding your question.

What you are talking about is multi-session writing. However it is only supported on CDs, not DVDs. It is the nature of the DVD spec.

From what I can find, there are programs that "kind of" support multi-session DVD writing, but it's a bad idea because Finder cannot mount multi-session DVDs reliably.

 

[Salmar]

Darth.Titan, I understood the question like you did. I didn't know you can only do multi session only on C/D's either. Thanks for that information too.

 

[vja4Him]

I think you have to deselect a box that 'closes' the DVD/CD, preventing additional files from being written to it.

Thanks! I'll look for that feature ...

 

[vja4Him]

The others here are misunderstanding your question.

What you are talking about is multi-session writing. However it is only supported on CDs, not DVDs. It is the nature of the DVD spec.

From what I can find, there are programs that "kind of" support multi-session DVD writing, but it's a bad idea because Finder cannot mount multi-session DVDs reliably.

Thanks! So, I it looks like I will need to invest in some CDs. Do you know if my LaCie burner will do what I want to with both CDR and CDRW?

My old SCSI LaCie burner did exactly what I want with both CDR and CDRW. I had very few problems. I found out that when I burned at 1x or 2x, I rarely ever had issues.

 

[vja4Him]

I read through the manual and my DVD burner can burn multiple sessions.

I took one of my old CD (brand new) and burned two sessions, but now I have two icons for that CD. And I'm assuming that each time I burn files, there will be added another icon.

How can I avoid having more than one icon? Is that what ISO does?

I tried chosing ISO, but it doesn't seem to be available. The manual says that I can use ISO. I believe that ISO is the only way to have multiple sessions appear as one disk. But how do I do that?