Is there a good alternative to packet writing?

[amheck]

Hey gang,

Just got my first DVD drive, a Sony DRU-510A. I've spent the last 2 days days trying to get a CDRW disk that I have all of my digital pictures on to read in this drive with no avail. It reads in other computers, but not in my main one. Anyway, that's a whole nother story.

People have told me that the packet writing, or DLA as I knew it, is flaky and to try best to avoid it. I've had Nero 6 Ultra and DVD X Copy coming, so I guess that's the software that I'll be using. Are there any good alternatives to packet writing software? I don't want to make disks now with this drive and software, and a few years now the road be stuck not being able to read the disks like I am now.

I really like the direct access to the CD. If there's no good solution, is the next best thing to keep and organize my digital pictures on the HDD, and then keep moving this over to DVD+RW every so often, instead of just doing the adding, deleting, moving, right on the disk?

Thanks in advance,
Aaron

[amheck]

Anyone? Did I ask a wrong question?

Aaron

[spiderman2k1]

TRY COPYTODVD

[lechtin]

I also have a Sony (DRU500A). Never tried DLA as I also heard it is flaky and I'm a Nero user, so I use InCD (Nero's packet writing software). You may have to download it separately from Ahead.

[RabidDog]

PACKET WRITING WORKS FINE on cds with the nero driver/program incd. howver I found it was a bit of a waste as basically you lose approx 200mb of 670mb on a std cdrw. What I decided to do was just to use cdrw as ordinary cdr and just erase completely whenenever I needed to redo the contents. If you use multi-session recording you can just add when you like till its full. HOWEVER I beleive there is no such thing as multi-session with DVD(rw). How many pictures do you need to store?? 670mb @ 700kB (jpeg) per pic is a lot of pictures. If they are really precious I would just burn them to a CDr and use that as an archive instead. DVDrw would take even at 9mb per raw TIFF image approx 2000+ images. ANd dont forget to backup that DVD.

RW media good for around 1000 erase/ cycles .....