Hi-MD, SonicStage and XP64

[Qwakrz]

Well, after a few months of waiting for drivers and university work to clear I have taken the plunge and installed XP64. I thought, for those wanting to know what will & will not work, I would report back on SS and SB results with XP64 profesional here.

SonicStage and SimpleBurner install without problems, no errors.

Hi-MD works BUT you cannot use any Net-MD functions so if you try to format a disc in Net-MD format it will not be seen by SS or SB. Net-MD units will NOT work at all, no drivers are available.

All data functions on the drive work so you can use Hi-MD as removable media

There is one slight problem, sometimes when you change a disc with SS open it will report that the disc is an invalid format, just remove the disc & re-insert. This, I think, is due to the fact that SS can't disable the autorun feature in XP64 so windows grabs the disc first locking SS out. I have had no problems putting disc in and then running SS.

[Christopher]

Yep, I've covered this a few times in the past. Windows XP Professional 64-bit is surprisingly stable, steadfast, and Sonicstage runs well within. As you cited, NetMD doesn't work -- I don't know if its a driver issue that may need customizing (aka, driver decorations) which wouldn't be too difficult to accomplish. I believe that if interest is high enough, I would attempt to create NetMD 64-bit drivers; I was able to "decorate" 32-bit drivers to work for my soundcard back when I was beta testing 64-bit XP.

Edited December 21, 2005 by kurisu

[Qwakrz]

Yeah, the driver for NetMD is 32bit and as such will not work in XP64 as XP64 uses 64 bit drivers only. XP64 does not have the needed driver built in either.

I have given up with Net-MD anyway so will be staying with XP64 & if need be I have a dual boot to XP32 anyway.