On 1 Aug 2005 at 12:53, Stephen Peters wrote: > "David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It doesn't work reliably in WinXP, because the CD-R writing > > interface has been hijacked and command prompts have been left out > > in the cold in a state of unreliability because of it. > > I confess, I'm confused now. I thought this all started because the > Finale 2006 was being shipped on a DVD drive, and you were suggesting > that DVD drives were unreliable on WinXP, which to me implied that the > DVD-ROM *reading* interface was bad. Now it sounds like the problem > is that the *writing* interface is unreliable. Is there a problem > with reading DVD-ROMs on XP that I haven't seen yet?
Well, for reading DVD drives you still have to have appropriate drivers. The client of mine who "downgraded" from WinXP to Win2K is now unable to use their DVD drive because the Win2K drivers Dell provides for the drive don't work with it. This is not a WinXP problem, of course. It's a problem with the lack of real support for DVDs in the OS (and, as Hiro points out, in the BIOS, which on the PC supports only the IDE interface, not the specific quirks of optical drives). My point was that because of the way optical drive support works in Windows, you can't count on these things to work as expected. I was simply supplying a caution to those contemplating add-on DVD drives. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
