On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:42:34 GMT, gurzhfvp.jbexfubc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Nick
Odell)
wrote:
>Ive been using my MiniDisk (Sony MZ-NH700) recorder as an external drive
in the
>same way that someone else might use a flash drive. Yes, I know I could
go out
>and get a flash drive for practically nothing nowadays but I have the
MiniDisc
>already - and I was thinking about security when travelling: if someone
steals a
>flash drive, they know they've got data; if they steal a minidisc they
don't
>know they've got my bank passwords and pins - they think they've got
Doris Day's
>Greatest Hits
>
>Anyway...
>
>It's a PC running XP. The first couple of times that I plugged in the
MiniDisc
>recorder the computer recognised it as an external drive and transferred
all the
>things that I wanted.
>
>Around the 3rd or fourth time I plugged the MiniDisc recorder into the
computer
>it recognised it instead as -erme- a MiniDisk recorder and then wouldn't
let me
>go any further without installing drivers and it wouldn't apparently let
me go
>back to treating it as an external drive.
>
>Am I doing something wrong here?
>
I think that I might have found the answer. I guess that XP is looking at
the
disk, not the device. If I load the minidisc recorder with a blank disk or
one
which only contains computer data it seems to recognise it as a storage
device:
if I load it with a disk containing any music tracks it seems to recognise
it as
an MD. So I guess that, if I want to mix music and data on one disk, I
have to
record the data first.
Nick
--
real e-mail is nickodell at bigfoot dot com
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