#Recordable CD-ROM info?
Greg,
>> We are looking at the Pinnacle
I saw Paul L.'s reply, and while it may not be the best available out there,
it's been a good solution for us, (for the money); we've had it pay for itself
several times over already.
We've been using one for a couple months now, with generally excellent results.
(Burning an average of 3-5 CD's per day.) It also works fine for regular CD use
in DOS and Windows, but NT won't recognize it until Pinnacle gets a set of
drivers out for NT; supposed to be happening RSN. We haven't actually used the
backup program that comes with it, (it *looks* pretty good), though we have
used it for some straight archiving. What we've mainly been doing is putting
some programs on CD that contain lots of very large MPEG and AVI files,
(interactive corporate training videos); these programs run the video files
right off the CD, and burning them ourselves makes it nice whenever we have to
change the code, (so we don't have a box of outdated pre-written CD's laying
around).
The manuals could be written a little clearer, (it often tells you what to do,
but not where to find the commands, etc., and really jumps from place to
place), and the driver installation instructions were wrong in our manual,
(correct on the readme file, finally), but in general, we've been very happy
with it. (Maybe we don't use it as hard as Paul L.; but we haven't had a single
problem with it, once we understood how to run the software. Now, if they'd
just get the Yost Group to write the manual…
Anyway, if you've got more questions, feel free to ask; I've had quite a bit of
experience with it. I'll answer as best I can. Like I said, there are
undoubtedly better ones, but for the money, it's worked well for us.,
John