Never ceases to amaze

[Paul Taylor]

It's not Microsoft, Linux, Unix, Mac, or OS/2. EIDE CD and DVD drives
are ATAPI compliant.

That's one big reason why we (consumers) should support standards so any
operating system that we use will work with our ATAPI hardware.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
[mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net] On Behalf Of
pthurmond at kc.rr.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 4:58 PM
To: Jonathan Hutchins
Cc: KCLUG
Subject: RE: Never ceases to amaze

       Well my component swapping experience has not been so fair with
Linux. However to level the playing field a bit lets start comparing
the most recent copies of both Windows and Linux. I am sorry but trying
to compare 98 to current day Linux is going to leave Windows at an
Obvious disadvantage. 
       As for installing CDRW drives on Windows 98 or later, I don't
know what you were smoking when you put it together I have never had a
problem with swapping any IDE drives around on Windows, that includes
CDRW and DVD. If Roxio is your problem thats a completely different
ballpark. We are talking about Windows vs. Linux, not Roxio versus
linux.
       As for Roxio 6, I haven't played with it yet, but its always
best to let it exist a few months and get its first updates before you
get the product.

On 04-08-2003 12:34 pm, Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org>
wrote:

> I have a P III 450 here running W98 that is responsible for grabbing
the 
> pictures off of the digital camera - other than that, it runs SETI. 
It would 
> be running a web cam, but the W98 video drivers go offline if the
screensaver 
> comes up.
> 
> I've been thinking of throwing the AMD 900 motherboard that's down in
the 
> basement in there, but I don't have any idea what make or model the
motherboard 
> is, I have no specs and no drivers for it.  If I swap motherboards on
a "live" 
> W98 installation, it's going to have fits about the drivers, and it's
unlikely 
> I'd ever get it running right even if I did a clean installation.
> 
> Linux, on the other hand, would be easy.  Set it to boot a generic
kernel if 
> I'd customised, swap boards, and boot.
> 
> On CD drives:  Yes, Windows has no trouble with swapping CD drives. 
CD-R/RW is 
> another matter though, the interface is not standardised.  When I
shelled out 
> the money for a full version of EZ CD Creator, now by Roxio, I lost
the ability 
> to use the RW features on my HP drive.  Linux still does both just
fine, and at 
> full available speed.  
> 
> Speaking of which, Tech TV was attempting to do a pro-manufacturer
review of 
> Roxio's v.6 of that piece of crap, but they couldn't.  The preceeding
call-for-
> help had just failed to help someone who had trashed his system
installing it, 
> and they had to say that there are reports all over the net that this
$80 bomb 
> will at best not work as expected, at worst will completely trash
your hard 
> drive.
> 
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