re: DVD Writer connection using USB
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(20200 messages posted)
Microsoft may well be to blame, but it is nevertheless a hardware problem — usb is
simply inferior to ide.
I'd never try to do anything through usb that is as timing sensitive as recording
to optical media. I just wouldn't trust it to work for recording to optical media.
Maybe it would be okay for data storage.
On Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 9:00 am, geek9pm wrote:
>May I but in?
>This is more a Microsoft problem more that a hardware problem. Everybody
wants
>to blame the hardware people for this. MM$ (Microsoft) sold us the idea that USB
>will do everything better, and gain with no pain! NOT!
>
>Here is a remark from that site give in the post above.
>"USB-Bridge need to be improved to allow real 16x reading/writing..."
>http://www.cdfreaks.com/reviews/NU-HDW-164-external-DVD-Burner/
>
>Notice how they blame the hardware maker!
>In the M$ KB (Knowledge Base) site you find that even good HDD with USB interface
>will fail as a network device because of an oversight on the part of MS. The ATAPI
>to USB thing was crippled to begin with by MS, the maker of the Windows OS! Maybe
>they will fix it in Vista? After all these years! I don't think so!
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