W e used two programs to successfully burn CD's in Windows 98, three weeks after obtaining a new computer. The UMAX Actionbook 312T notebook computer came with the operating system preinstalled, and features an AMD K6 processor running at 266 MHz. The adjustment to Windows 98 included the installation of an EPST parallel port adapter cable, which was used to connect a Philips Omniwriter CD Rewritable for the first test. For CD recording software we used both Goldenhawk's CDRWIN 3.7B and Adaptec's Easy CD Creator Lite 3.01b. CDRWIN was used both to copy and create CD's. |
You generally can't generalize. The two CD recording programs do not support identical Windows 98 configurations. In Device Manager, under CD-ROM/ Properties/ Settings after installing Easy CD Creator Lite showed Disconnect and Auto Insert Notification enabled, while the instructions for CDRWIN said Disconnect should be enabled and Auto Insert Notification disabled. Go figure. The first attempt was to make a working copy of the multimedia medical encylopedia BodyWorks 6.0, using CDRWIN, and in less than thirty minutes we had made a nice shiny coaster for our dining area. Seriously, though, the second try was successful, despite the program freezing during the final step. A later CD-R recording with the Adaptec 1480A CardBus interface failed in 2X mode, but succeeded in 1X mode. We also learned that inserting an unrecorded CD-R before it is needed can lead to rendering it useless, although we are at a loss to understand this.
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After freeing some space on our hard drive (the CD copy procedure had been borrowing some) we proceeded to encounter our first buffer underrun with Easy CD Creator Lite while attempting to record a test mode copy of our hard drive's most important files. Reconnecting the Omniwriter through an Adaptec 1480A CardBus (PCMCIA) interface proved more successful. Failures due to sub-directory nesting more than 8 levels deep were eliminated by excluding imported browser bookmarks, and even though the testing phase succeeded by skipping certain Windows files which were in use, the recording failed. With the Windows directory excluded we succeeded, but found we had 300 Mb less hard drive space. It took a not inconsiderable search to find and delete a misplaced image file from our Easy CD Creator Lite session. The best part was, we ended up with a number of shiny new coasters for our table!
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