Can I burn CDs from a Jaz drive? Tape drive?
With a little extra care, yes. For a Jaz drive, defragmenting the drive right before starting a burn seems to be the key to success. It’s also very important to ensure that nothing else is trying to access the drive while the write is underway. One user reported being able to write at 1x from a DDS tape drive using Seagate’s Direct Tape Access, but this isn’t recommended. Copying the data to a hard drive and doing the burn from there is much more likely to succeed. There are no known instances of successful CD-R burns using punched card readers as the source device. Doing a test run is strongly recommended when using any of these devices.
