Nero 5.5 Woes!

[LvR]

Obviously - but then ECDC5 may also be having the exact same fit with it on the same machine!

Does WinonCd38 support that drive?

Time to decide - you want packet writing? - if yes, I would say hang on untill either Roxio or Ahead supports the drive. Anything you now do is bound to be an experiment to see if the guys knew what they were doing.

I am sticking with ECDC4.0.5/Directcd3.0.5 till there is official support under ECDC5 - All my photos are sitting on CDRWs!

[dizzynoodle]

see, winoncd 3.8 is writing CD ! i wouldn't say it really fully supports the drive, but using one of the drivers [i guess it looks at it as a standard 12X writer] and it works fine.. actually great ! But the bummer is that i can't seem to find a driver that will support the JustLInk ! [the burn-proff technology is why i actually bought the drive!] that is why i am being a pest trying to get EasyCDC 5 to work again... i swear it was the sweetest thing when it worked !

[LvR]

Yep

As I said - anything you now have working without "Official" support announced somewhere on the sw manufacturers website is pure luck, and will in the long-run do nothing for reliability as you have already discovered.

[dizzynoodle]

I am sticking with ECDC4.0.5/Directcd3.0.5 till there is official support under ECDC5 - All my photos are sitting on CDRWs!

Does ECDC4.0.5 support the drive officially or non officially ? And is it working well ? Also are you getting to use the JustLink under that version ?

[LvR]

Dizzynoodle

Maybe it was just luck, but out here we are never offered the hw with all that "nice to have" features - in this case the 4M buffer with burnproof (I would like to have one of those though!). The model we get locally is the simpler model, and is supported under 4.0.5 - in both theory and practice - I have been running a few under W2K now for about 2 months with not a coaster produced yet.

Nero and ECDC5 seems to be taking a different route though - they just refuse to talk to your drive if the exact model number does not match a predefined supported database - Ahead and Nero both confirmed that the drives will be supported with the next revision of software - they cant put a timeframe on it though!

I have never used Justlink.

[dizzynoodle]

but i thought thr whole concept f the HP CD12ri was to take the existing CD-Writer9500 model SLAP ON the burn proof technology and re-introduce it to the market ! As far as i know, all the CD12ri series have the Burn Proof technology under the name of JustLink, now the question is if the writing software actually supports it or not ! I'm sure CDEC 4 doesn't as it was not around when it was introduced...

[LvR]

In theory -yes.

In practice no - the 9500 is not the same as the 12i, is not the same as the 12d, and is also not the same as the 12ri or the 12n - mine certainly does not have "burnproof" according to the agents and I only have a 2M buffer whereas you have a 4M buffer.

Change of hardware always requires a re-think on the sw side as well - however small the change, or in your case however big the change with the introduction of burnproof that was never there before

I suppose that explains why my drive runs ok under ECDC4 - it does not have burnproof.

[dizzynoodle]

ma u r absolutaly right...come to think of it...i always thought i had the 12ri ! I just checked my DM... i have the 12n ! On the HP website they don't mention anything other than the ri and ci which are part of the i series... what happend to the other 12xx ? where's the info on those ?

did a quik search on HP's site;

HP forum

HP forum2

[dizzynoodle]

hey LVR,

just checked the Roxio Suport page... they have added the CD12d to their list of supported drives... i guess that does not mean we are fully supported yet does it !? Soon maybe . The release that supports it is 5.02b

OK, now what's happening !?

I try to install EZCD 5, the installer launches but then nothing happens ! Nothing at all..... i keep trying and nothing happens !

What's up ?

This is a clean install of Win2k [well to a new directory at least ]