We are about to buy two LaCie CDRW drives for our Caliburs. We will use this as an archive system but will, from time to time, revisit these files and may want to move them to another platform. I have always understood that the reason for having the FCS file format was to facilitate cross platform sharing of files. Often, higher versions of some software is needed to burn hybrid or ISO9660 disks.
Toast is an example.
One needs Toast Pro to do this. Haywood Pyle St.