Hello,

I'm not a conventional Mac user and am basically interested in studying the HFS format. I have an iMac with MacOS 9 which seems to have a normal CD-Drive.

1) I'd like to know if it is possible to write/record Data-CD's (not audio CD's) in the HFS format using this. Is there any difference in the underlying format of an audio CD and a data CD? Are audio CD's also recorded using HFS?

2) I came across an article in c't which mentioned that one could manually replace the CD-Rom drive by a CD-Writer instead and install the Software Toast onto the iMac which could then be used for burning CD's in HFS/HFS+ format. Can anyone who's familiar with this tell me if this would work if I were to replace my existing CD-ROM drive which came with the Mac with a Plextor CD-Writer?

Thanks,

Nandini Hengen