On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 22:29:47 GMT, "William Sarokin"
bigmaho@verizon.net> wrote:


XP includes a DVD/RAM driver. My XP recognizes my Panasonic LF-D201
drive
and will read and write to it. The one caveat is that it won't recognize
Deva 2, FAT 16 disks. I had to load an older version of 'Write DVD'
inorder
to read my Deav DVD's with an XP PC.

Not here. I have a Panasonic DVD RAM -R RW and a LG DVD RAM -/+ R RW
and both needed a DVD RAM driver from the installation CD ROM.
System is XP pro, all packs and updates.

I'll never figure out the mysteries of XP. When I installed my DVD/RAM
drive, XP created 2 drives in the PC. One is a read only and the other a
read/write. As I said though, I needed an external driver (and an older
one
at that) to be able to read Fat 16 DVD's. I'm curious if XP 'saw' your
drives at all without the external drivers? And also, can you read/write
Fat 16? (Does it give you the option to format as Fat 16)? Fat 16 will
soon be a moot point but it would be nice to maintain backward
compatiblity
if an older disk shows up.
Billy

Well the cantar also did not have that in the beginning, only after
requests from customers this came in the software-updates.
So, don;t be surprised if next month the next firmware will have this
option. ( to late, i know )

hey,that's heartening to know more than one machine does/did not have
this facility. ;)


You can buy dvd ram readers here for 70 Euro, i would defenitly get
one of these if you use a PD6.

well, if it is only 70 euro, i am definitely getting one.

About the USB2 for data, i'm not that into the specs, but i know that
USB is far more power & CPU hungry then FW.
But USB is also giving me much less problems then FW, thats true.

i'm not so sure about the characteristics of the USB -vs- 1394. It
just seemed like another option that is common enough.

Yep, here in Holland you find the Panasonic/Mashita DVD RAM SW-9581 in
the sale for 70 euro ex vat. These recorders are dumped, so if you
want me to send you one, just mention it.
i think UPS will be almost more expensive than the actual burner
itself :-)

Is the PD6 yours ?

Both USB and Firewire have their own dedicated controller chips so I don't
think it's a CPU issue. USB2.0 = 480mbps transfer rate, Firewire 400 =
400mbps transfer rate. I can't imagine they would use the older and much
much slower USB 1.X implementation on any recorders.

Unrecognized or improperly recognized hardware on an XP system is generally
the result of either motherboard incompatibilites or lack of or improper
driver support from the hardware manufacturer

I'll never figure out the mysteries of XP. When I installed my DVD/RAM
drive, XP created 2 drives in the PC. One is a read only and the other a
read/write. As I said though, I needed an external driver (and an older one
at that) to be able to read Fat 16 DVD's. I'm curious if XP 'saw' your
drives at all without the external drivers?

And also, can you read/write
Fat 16? (Does it give you the option to format as Fat 16)?

Fat 16 will
soon be a moot point but it would be nice to maintain backward compatiblity
if an older disk shows up.

Hmm, Xp was famous for it's lack of USB support in the beginning, and
that has changed over the years.
But the fact that you need to install a driver is something very
normal, with almost every OS.

R
Http://www.xs4all.nl/~tuig/index.html

Mac OSX reads FAT16. FAT32 and UDF DVD-RAM directly from the OS. I use
an off-the-shelf IDE internal drive in a Firewire/USB 1/2 enclosure with
no problems.
P

"Peter" <pkurland@REMOVEearthlink.net> wrote in message
news:pkurland-A17C82.16083311042004@comcast.ash.giganews.com...
Mac OSX reads FAT16. FAT32 and UDF DVD-RAM directly from the OS. I use
an off-the-shelf IDE internal drive in a Firewire/USB 1/2 enclosure with
no problems.
P

Peter..any idea why there still is no way to read an NTFS disc on the Mac?
It sure would simplify cross platform life because of the limitations of FAT
32. I had kind of hoped that OSX would be able to read NTFS.

Actually, check https://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfsosx/
There is a third party utility for reading NTFS volumes in OSX. I
haven't tried it personally. I think you can also access NTFS formatted
data with the Windows network implementation in OSX, but I haven't had
occasion to use it. I do network frequently with XP.
Peter

FAT16 is not someting i use, so i can't tell you how that is doing
here. ( isn;t the deva 2 yet upgraded to F32 ? )

"Peter" <pkurland@REMOVEearthlink.net> wrote in message
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Mac OSX reads FAT16. FAT32 and UDF DVD-RAM directly from the OS. I use
an off-the-shelf IDE internal drive in a Firewire/USB 1/2 enclosure with
no problems.


Peter..any idea why there still is no way to read an NTFS disc on the Mac?
It sure would simplify cross platform life because of the limitations of FAT
32. I had kind of hoped that OSX would be able to read NTFS.

Mac OSX reads FAT16. FAT32 and UDF DVD-RAM directly from the OS. I use
an off-the-shelf IDE internal drive in a Firewire/USB 1/2 enclosure with
no problems.
P