Arge
Sun Jul 27 13:10:41 CDT 2003
Because it is not a floppy or a zip
Bottom line is it won't do it so rationalizing it to death won't change a
thing
Bob
"John G. Ata" <John@TheAtas.org-spamguard> wrote in message
news:uVyuuRGVDHA.3232@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Hi Dick,
>
> Yes, as the Knowledge Base article states, Microsoft supports DVD-RAM in
> Windows XP. Yes, I can go into any application including Notepad and save
> directly onto a DVD-RAM device. Windows sees it as a FAT32 file system
> (over UDFS). Of course, if I put in a DVD-RAM media that was formatted as
a
> CDFS type (it's possible by having 3rd party software perform the
> formatting), it is seen as read-only. But when formatted using the
standard
> Windows applets, it works fine. So it doesn't make any sense to me why it
> isn't considered "removable media" when backing up Money files... that's
> exactly what it is. You see, I have no problem saving directly from Money
> if I put in the pathname in the hardrive portion of "Backup..." that
> utilizes the DVD-RAM - that works fine. I was just curious why it wasn't
> considered "removable media" along with floppies and zips - it would have
> been more convenient.
>
> Take care,
> John.
>
> "Dick Watson" <littlegreengecko@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:%23OC2OiDVDHA.2044@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > That's exactly the point. Money will deal with devices that the
operating
> > system manages. It doesn't ship a CD burning engine of its own.
> Thankfully.
> >
> > I do not believe that XP natively presents a standard random read-write
> > device via device driver to applications for a DVD-RAM. There may be 3rd
> > party drivers that do this. The native packet writing technology, Mt.
> > Rainier, for XP's follow-on O/S ("Longhorn"???) will do this Real Soon
> Now.
> > (Actually, I may stand corrected--see
> >
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;283588; is yours
a
> > supported device? Does it run the right kind of file system--UDFS, not
> CDFS?
> > If so, I'd expect to find it in the Money options for hard disk backup
> > location.)
> >
> > If you go into, say, Notepad, and do a File|Save, can you save directly
on
> > the DVD-RAM? (I don't mean to a hard disk cache waiting to be written,
> which
> > Money on XP will do on "hard disk" backup for a writable CD.)
> >
> > "John G. Ata" <John@TheAtas.org-spamguard> wrote in message
> > news:%23hm3bc%23UDHA.2508@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > > True, a CD is not a floppy. But why should a program care? ...
that's
> a
> > > device driver function supplied by the OS. Money should see the
DVD-RAM
> > > drive as the XP Operating System API presents it - as a standard hard
> > > drive - so nothing special needs to be done by the application.
> > Therefore,
> > > it's not clear why Money can't group DVD-RAM drives with other
> "Removable
> > > Media" - that's exactly what it is.
> > >
> > > I've found DVD-RAM (not to be confused with other DVD technologies) to
> be
> > > exceptionally stable and not prone to errors whatsoever. Indeed, the
> > media
> > > is ideal for backups - that's what is was designed for. With
extensive
> > > error correction and the ability to rewrite 100,000 times, you really
> > can't
> > > beat it, IMHO. In my experience, the only problems I've experienced
> > backing
> > > up to my DVD-RAM device is when I've introduced programs such as
> DirectCD
> > in
> > > the equation... it has a tendancy of conflicting with the correct
> > operation
> > > of my device at the most inopportune time, to put it mildly. To be
> fair,
> > > however, I haven't used the latest version, nor do I intend to.
> >
> >
>
>