Adaptec Direct CD Problem or CD-RW Issues

[nino]

Was wondering if you could help me out. I am a Graduate Student at Purdue University and we have several Dell machines that use Sony CD-RW drives with EZ-Cd creator and Direct CD.
I've scrapped several CD-RW's trying to go back and forth from school to home. Writing data to the CD-RW using Direct CD at home is just fine. The problem occurs when I bring that CD up to school and try to use the school's CD-RW and Direct CD. If the CD was written to previously using Direct CD at home then the CD becomes corrupted by the school's burner. Both software packages are identical. Shouldn't the packet format be the same regardless of the burner. I have another friend that ran into the exact same problem. I also have a friend that is using NTI's package and ran into the same problem. Shouldn't packet writing format be standardized so that a CD formatted using Direct CD CAN truly be used as a floppy. It appears that this isn't the case.
I'm trying to figure out why this occurs. Among us we have 6 CD-RW's that don't work. Once the CD becomes corrupted the CD-RW won't even recognize the CD to erase it.

 

[Lightingguy]

I had this problem with EZ CD Creator 4.0 and Direct CD 2.5. Adaptec's website updates helped (go to 4.02d and 3.5d at least). It appeared that the problem was drive compatability, the newer drives need the updates.

Reformat the CDRWs, they should be OK then.

 

[nino]

The problem is that I CAN'T reformat the CD-RW's anymore. They are screwed.

 

[Rigoletto]

I could never format a cheap Traxdata myself.

 

[Cnuke]

Are you sure that the hardware at school is okay. Maybe the firmware on the cdr needs upgraded. I find it hard to believe that all these people are having problems with Adaptec. If you have upgraded to the newest patch of Adaptec cdr (which last i checked is ver 4.02) then upgrade the firmware on the sony cdrs. Have you tried another brand of CDRW?