[Ham-Computers] Windows XP and CD/DVD-R/RW

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

OK.  All that I want the CD/DVD writer controller software to do is let me 
treat the removable media like any other drive.  I don't want it to build 
"jobs".  And I don't want it to pretend to write to media that isn't there, if 
I understand what you are saying.  When I tell the system to write 
something, I expect it to write it then or at least shortly afterwards subject to 
buffering considerations.

Also, I loaded a blank (unformatted) DVD+R) into the drive in my laptop, 
which doesn't have Easy Media or anything similar installed.  The OS came up 
and claimed to recognize it as a blank CD, not DVD.  From which I concluded 
that XP lacks native support for DVD writables.  Which opinion was 
strengthened when a search through the OS Help files failed to find anything other 
than basic description of DVD's.

In a message dated 4/15/2010 7:49:16 PM Central Daylight Time, 
danki6x at earthlink.net writes: 
> I use Nero which has come with my last couple writers.  I like the extra
> features (image writing, easier loading the files you want to copy with it
> showing you space left, etc.) which the built in does not do.  But, the
> built in gets the basic job done and allows you to keep adding until you
> want to write.  Dan KI6X
> 
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> 
> Thanks.  But this is a fresh installation (about three weeks old) , and
> shortly after I re-installed Easy Media, it came up wanting to install all
> the latest updates.  Which I did.  DVD's did not exist a decade ago.  
> That's
> when I bought my first CD-RW drive, roughly.(not the one in the machine 
> now)
> The DVD drive is a Plextor, made in either 2006 or 2007, before their
> quality went into the toilet.
> 
> What writer software do you use?  The only reason I asked whether XP had 
> the
> native capability was that if it did, there'd be no reason for me not to 
> use
> it.  I never use (and did not buy it for) any of the bells and whistles in
> Easy CD or Easy Media, only the write and read capability.
> 

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