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Re: Ejecting a CD?

To: REALbasic Network Users Group <realbasic-nug at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Subject: Re: Ejecting a CD?
From: Mike Benonis <mbenonis_lists at mac dot com>
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 16:35:46 -0500
There is one little problem...When you burn a CD, it actually only formats
it to the amount of data that's on it.  So you could have a CD where the
Capacity property would read 256MB.  In which case your method would happily
ignore it.

-Mike

on 1/4/02 4:25 PM, Andrew Ellis at loopend at yahoo dot com wrote:

> Well, I don't have a perfect answer but I can suggest a less than perfect
> solution. How about checking in addition to the IsRemovable property, the
> Capacity property (a range between 630mb and 720mb to be safe). This should
> rule out Zip disks, Jazz disks, DVDs, flash cards,etc. It leaves you with
> the CD-RW and CD drives. Since both can read CDs, you just have to eject one
> of them for the kids to insert the required CD.
> Sounds too unprofessional, I know.
> 
> Andrew



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