Message-ID: <3A298E4E.EDDDF783@halenet.com.au>
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 10:05:34 +1000
From: Don Hansford
On Saturday 02 December 2000 09:09, Florian Kleedorfer wrote:
I have an HP CD-writer+ 8100 and it works fine.
How is it connected? scsi? usb? ide? lp? serial?
IDE.
Flo.
Interesting! And it doesn't require WinXX software to run?
Of course not :-)
The reason I ask is that at work I have an HP CD-Writer 8100 connected to my box. It is a USB device and I had to move from Win95 to Win98SE to run it.
Win 95 B & C had limited USB support only.
To make matters worse, the USB connection is such a bad implementation that while I am buring a CD if I run any other software at all the burning process dies and the CD is spoiled. I would never recommend a USB solution to anyone right now. USB stinks.
AFAIK that is a Win restriction, not USB. Unlike Linux, Win does not control processes in seperate "envelopes", so any app can (and frequently does) interrupt other apps. Burning CDs requires an uninterrupted flow of data to and from the buffers. Hence the fact that Win has only limited support for multi-tasking,while most Unix derivatives have true multi-tasking support as a direct result of their networking/ file sharing heritage.
JLK
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