Re: Using a minidisk recorder as computer external drive

"Nick Odell" <gurzhfvp.jbexfubc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:47b4a0a1.7667255@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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.

Actually, I'm sure that this is the HiMD unit deciding how to enumerate 
itself to the host (PC).

http://www.lvr.com/usbcenum.htm

So it will depend on what "rules" Sony stuck in the HiMD units.  Maybe
they 
want to prevent any attempt at getting to the audio data on a MD except 
through their programs?

Jeff
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