MD Simple Burner incompatiblility?

[lyceemoliere]

I have had 4 computers (with 3 OSs) crash while I am operating simple MD burner. I am very concerned. I am almost ready to buy a simple laptop with minimal capacilty just for the purpose of burning to md. I have successfully buned about 150 discs or more but the simple burner seems to really tax my system. Any thoughts??

Right now I have windowns XP and a dell machine that has been working perfectly for one year until I tried to burn some minidiscs on it!! arggh

[1kyle]

I have had 4 computers (with 3 OSs) crash while I am operating simple MD burner. I am very concerned. I am almost ready to buy a simple laptop with minimal capacilty just for the purpose of burning to md. I have successfully buned about 150 discs or more but the simple burner seems to really tax my system. Any thoughts??

Right now I have windowns XP and a dell machine that has been working perfectly for one year until I tried to burn some minidiscs on it!! arggh

You don't need to buy a special machine -- you could create a Virtual Windows XP machine (Vmware, Vbox, Virtual PC etc etc) and simply run SB on that.

I'm not sure what your problem is -- I installed SS 4.3 (actually you don't apparently need to install the whole of SS just the open mg module) but I installed SS anyway. Then install SB and it all works fine. I'm running my whole kybosh on a small laptop running SUSE Linux 10.3 (64 bit) with Windows XP running as a guest virtual machine on it under vmware.

Note that the "taxing of your system" might not be due to SB but the fact that some MD models will only transfer at USB 1 (or 1.1) speeds which can be as slow as molasses.

The RH1 definitely (and possibly some of the more recent models - although I'm not sure here) will use USB 2 for transfer --an order of magnitude faster than USB 1.1.

RH1 definitely uses USB 2 for transfer.

Cheers

-K