Chapter
06-21-1999, 08:39 PM
AMD K6-2 350 and Sony CD-ReWritable Recorder CRX100E/X USB External CD-R
CD-RW......
System Requirements on Box:
Pentium 233Mhz or faster PC
Sony Tech Support:
If you see the box, Sony has tested the drive and recommends only Intel
Brand chips. "Sony has not tested this drive on an AMD machine".
The sad thing is that it almost works! Although it seems to have some
fundemantal issues with my machine.
Seems like Sony is trying to wiggle out of a problem here. Now I will have
a problem with my COMPUSA 15% restoking fee.....No make that Sony will have
a problem with my 15% restockking fee.......
Tyan S1590S Motherboard
AMD K6-2 350
128 MB PC 100 Ram
7.2 Gig Maxtor ATA/33
Artec 40X CD-ROM
Zip 100 Parrallel
STB Velocity 128
PREVIOUS POST on other newsgroups B4 Return of Product
long....
Sony Spressa USB CD-ReWritable CRX100E/X External
4X/2X/6X USB Drive...
I am getting the feeling that the HOTBURN Software is junk! No Surprise.
After Tech Support and I solved the mscvrt.dll problem which I outlined in
yesterday's post.....today I have two new problems.
When trying to copy a directory from my hard drive to a CD-RW I would get a
error message( I.5 or 1.5 ) about 1/3 the way through that would say Drive
Not Ready. When I called tech support they said that the directory I was
copying (all of my unzipped/compressed internet downloads) had a bad file
which the CD-RW would not copy. Can this be? I thought you ask a drive to
copy and it will copy... good file or bad file...?
So, then I went to copy audio CD's. When I run the "test" to see the
suitability of the CD-ROM drive (a 40x drive made by Artec / Ultima
Electronic Corp) the HOTBURN software says.. An error occurred.. error
setting read speed. The test continues and I get a mx transfer rate of
3109kb and it says "operation successful". However because of the first
error...I can not use HOTBURN in any way to access the CD-ROM..... My last
call to SONY will be tonight.... after this it's a return to COMPUSA and I
am not paying the 15% restocking fee...
We even tried installing the drive on a System with a Diamond / Micronics
Celeron 400 Win98 with enabled USB... upon plugging in the SONY drive .
They system would crash on the installation of the Shuttle Technology MSD
Adapter (the SCSI Device driver).
Obviously SONY chose HOTBURN which is going to cause a large amount of calls
to their support people. Luckily it's 24/7 support with an "800" number.
I did discover on the Adaptec site that the CD-ROM should support DAE or
Digital Audio Extraction. Apparently very few CD-ROM drives support it.
CD-RW......
System Requirements on Box:
Pentium 233Mhz or faster PC
Sony Tech Support:
If you see the box, Sony has tested the drive and recommends only Intel
Brand chips. "Sony has not tested this drive on an AMD machine".
The sad thing is that it almost works! Although it seems to have some
fundemantal issues with my machine.
Seems like Sony is trying to wiggle out of a problem here. Now I will have
a problem with my COMPUSA 15% restoking fee.....No make that Sony will have
a problem with my 15% restockking fee.......
Tyan S1590S Motherboard
AMD K6-2 350
128 MB PC 100 Ram
7.2 Gig Maxtor ATA/33
Artec 40X CD-ROM
Zip 100 Parrallel
STB Velocity 128
PREVIOUS POST on other newsgroups B4 Return of Product
long....
Sony Spressa USB CD-ReWritable CRX100E/X External
4X/2X/6X USB Drive...
I am getting the feeling that the HOTBURN Software is junk! No Surprise.
After Tech Support and I solved the mscvrt.dll problem which I outlined in
yesterday's post.....today I have two new problems.
When trying to copy a directory from my hard drive to a CD-RW I would get a
error message( I.5 or 1.5 ) about 1/3 the way through that would say Drive
Not Ready. When I called tech support they said that the directory I was
copying (all of my unzipped/compressed internet downloads) had a bad file
which the CD-RW would not copy. Can this be? I thought you ask a drive to
copy and it will copy... good file or bad file...?
So, then I went to copy audio CD's. When I run the "test" to see the
suitability of the CD-ROM drive (a 40x drive made by Artec / Ultima
Electronic Corp) the HOTBURN software says.. An error occurred.. error
setting read speed. The test continues and I get a mx transfer rate of
3109kb and it says "operation successful". However because of the first
error...I can not use HOTBURN in any way to access the CD-ROM..... My last
call to SONY will be tonight.... after this it's a return to COMPUSA and I
am not paying the 15% restocking fee...
We even tried installing the drive on a System with a Diamond / Micronics
Celeron 400 Win98 with enabled USB... upon plugging in the SONY drive .
They system would crash on the installation of the Shuttle Technology MSD
Adapter (the SCSI Device driver).
Obviously SONY chose HOTBURN which is going to cause a large amount of calls
to their support people. Luckily it's 24/7 support with an "800" number.
I did discover on the Adaptec site that the CD-ROM should support DAE or
Digital Audio Extraction. Apparently very few CD-ROM drives support it.