Mac OS still can't read discs from a PC????
Friends, it's 2015, and I just sent some data DVDs to a Mac Newbie who has Yosemite. I burned them under Windows7 using Nero which is my standard go to program. The poor guy claims he could not read them and returned the disc for me to check.
It is CDFS format, ISO 9660. Perfectly fine on a PC.
A search for CDFS led me to a thread on this forum: http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/9959/why-cant-os-x-read-cdfs-disks
This is an ancient problem apparently. You would think the Mac OS would handle this basic long standing format.
But apparently NO. It's still going on.
I did not burn multisession discs as some finger pointers say. I know better. My discs are always finalized. I did not use the built in Windows burn software, and this is not some conspiracy to dominate the world against innocent Mac users perpetrated by evil Windows overlords!!!
So I had to reburn them, and await his report. I found some iso software that lets me specify HFS+, and send various versions.
What is the consensus out there in Mac world? Should I have used UDF? Why not CDFS? Isn't ISO 9660 still the standard??
Peace. This stuff should have been ironed out years ago.
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In a way it was - they removed all the DVD drives from all the newer Macs. ISO9660 should have been ok but I remember that even the other way, Mac burning software had a special Mac/PC hybrid option to work on both. It looks like ISO9660 isn't just one version and not all versions are supported by every platform:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660#Operating_system_support
UDF is probably more reliable, it looks like OS X supports all the versions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format
thanks for the links. I'll save the UDF table for any future tries to share data discs with Mac budz.