Well, now I am more confused.

I have read both good and bad things about the drive I am using (TEAC
CDR-55S).  I have read no good things from folks using it under Linux, only
Windows.

I still haven't read anything either way about my particular Dreamcast unit. 
It has a date of manufacture of October 2000.  I have read good things for
months before that, but nothing for that month or later.

At http://members.fortunecity.com/subskin/cdrwin.htm the directions say to
write the data track in XA Mode 2, but at http://mc.pp.se/dc/cdr.html it says
to use XA Mode 1.

I'm thinking of buying an Iomega USB CD-RW drive as it is one of the few USB
CD-R drives that are supported under Linux and trying that.  But if my DC unit
won't boot from a CD-R at all, that would be pointless.

I've tried scrambling the BIN files and not scrambling them.  Most of them
don't say whether or not they are already scrambled.  For example, is the IP
slave at http://mc.pp.se/dc/ipslave.html already scrambled?  Is there an easy
way to tell?

Should the -multi be on the cdrecord invocation for the data track?  One
message from a mailing list archive says it is not necessary.  That makes
sense.  Does it do any harm for it to be there?

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Gene McCulley            http://enki.org/~mcculley/