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Number   :  2634
Date     :  2002-08-09
Author   :  Kan Yabumoto
Subject  :  DirectCD's Disk Full condition
Size(KB) :  1



Hi, all:

I was away from my office for a few days and I found
there was a discussion about CD-RW's Disk-Full condition.

It is my wild guess that it is one of many bugs in DirectCD.
That is, DirectCD (from Adaptec/Roxio) reports an invalid
(or less) value when the system inquires about the
remaining space on the volume. Furthermore, the same bug
probably does not exist in Ahead's InCD (bundled with their
NERO software).

In general, we found InCD a much better product than DirectCD.

To solve the Disk-Full problem, use the /CK0 switch that
disables the pre-write checking of the disk space on the
destination. This behavior is not that bad (actually many
simple-minded copy programs such as Microsoft's COPY
command do just that).

With /CK0, XXCOPY skip the pre-write testing and proceed
to copy the file. When an out-of-space condition fails the
file-copy operation, XXCOPY will delete the partially-
copied file. This behavior is what the COPY command (and
many other programs) does. The XXCOPY default behavior
is to avoid this scenario by checking the remaining space
on the destination volume first (which we believe is a
preferred behavior).

My recommendation is, if you are using the DirectCD
(bundled with EasyCD Creator) but have a choice
(access to the NERO package), use the NERO (and InCD)
software whenever you can.

Kan Yabumoto

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At 2002-08-08 09:12, you wrote:
>Well, Mark, I only have an internal CD and it's a CD-RW not a CD-R. I
>was reading stuff and I think I really need to do something "strange"
>to get xxcopy to work to a CD, like use some other software (DirectDC
>or something like that). I "just" want back up some files each day
>and have those available for my current computer or the one at work.
>Michael



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