Yeah, Windoze 98 lost my CDROM and CDROM burner after 7 months of
working fine.  I have not been able to get them back and I am to the
point of re-building the box but I am spinning 14gb on the system.

Ain't technology wonderful!

joe


Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>
> On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:00:43 -0500 Tom Suzda <suzda@EXECPC.COM> writes:
> >Actaully, long term, the final goal is to have this controller I'm
> >working
> >on, run under Windoze. The company has asked me if I've gotten the
> >Windoze
> >driver written yet. I tell them, check with me in a year or two. I'm
> >just
> >using the Generic driver for testing purposes. I'm also waiting for
> >the time
> >I plug the controller in to the parallel port, Windoze wakes up, and
> >says it
> >sees new hardware, please insert the driver disk. Then the fun starts.
> >
>
>         Since pretty much ALL devices that plug into a parallel port just
> have to exchange bytes of data back and forth, WHY do we have to keep
> adding drivers?  Windoze otta have a generic driver for EPP that we can
> just call.  I'd expect to be able to trap an interrupt, poll whether the
> device is ready for more data or has data waiting for me (and Windoze
> might FIFO it for me...), then a function to call where I pass data and
> another to call where I pick up data.
>
>         As for plug and pray...  I recently tried adding a plug and pray
> board to my desktop machine at home.  Windoze found it, but my scanner
> and tape drive software would not find it. Windoze assigned it some weird
> address, not the standard LPT2 address.  After messing with it for a few
> weeks, I finally took the board back and got one with JUMPERS.  Set the
> jumpers, plugged it in, and everything works!
>
> Harold
>
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> harold@hallikainen.com
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