dbminter

The BIOS looks to be okay. Hi-Speed USB and Legacy USB are Enabled. USB 2.0 Legacy Support is set to Hi-Speed. Could the Legacy USB being enabled have crippled all USB, including the Hi-Speed 2.0 devices, to something slower? Since I had nothing to better to do I went in and changed the Legacy USB setting, not thinking it would matter. It didn't. Still getting about 25 K. Hmmm, I may be on to something. With Legacy USB disabled, BOTH USB drives were not visible in "DOS." So, this seems to indicate these drives are "legacy" USB, whatever that means, since when it is enabled, the drives are visible from a Windows ME bootable rescue diskette. Could that be why these drives are slow? That maybe they're in fact just USB 2.0 and not Hi-Speed? Which means, where do I go from here? What should I use/check for on one of these drives?

What should I do with Sandra, though? i.e. what do I need to run, what values do you want back, etc.?

Ah, so, the fuckers still can't get their act together. I had such hopes that DVD-R DL might work. My only experiements with DVD+R DL thus far resulted 50/50 with playback. The main problem was the players. For instance, the Panasonic DMR-E50 DVD recorder for playback. Doesn't like DVD+R DL. Starts playing everything at 2x, no audio, and then crashes. That seemed to be the most common problem across the board.

You know? A disabling in the BIOS. Never thought of that. *I* wouldn't have, no. But, I'd not put it past the cosmic forces to have CHANGED it for me without my notice. I will check that right now, I think.

Actually, all kidding aside, do you recommend a similar application? I've only been using it because, thus far, it was the only one I tested that let me inject files into a bootable disc image that STILL left the image bootable when it was done. I find this .ISZ thing to be as blunt as a spoon, e.g. no one else seems to support it. Haven't tried PowerISO, I don't think.

Well, well. Does UltrAISO touch a nerve?

UltraISO has something called an .ISZ type, apparently an extension on .ISO that allows compression and splitting of an archive. Is this a file format that ImgBurn can be made to/should support? Or is it proprietary in some way/requires licensing?

I think I had suggested the create folder idea before, but, I had the new idea of leaving everything the same except the focus changes. That way, only the focus change needed to be added.

Thanks!

I installed something way back that I forget what it was. But, it let you right click on a video file and after processing would return the names of its audio and video codecs. Anyone happen to know what this might have been? Or just anything like this. Thanks!

No, it almost was. But, 10 years ago, I gave up that ambition for a woman. So close, and, yet, so far. I am an idiot.

Well, I believe my track record for suggestions accepted versus rejected is about 50/50. I haven't made that many, so, such a proportion isn't necessarily as impressive as it looks.

I'm a big picture kind of guy. If we have the ability to take over Nero, why not take over Microsoft first? If we start off fixing the big end and all of its problems first, then, it will help trickling down to other software.

I was wondering if at some point in the future we might have a create folder option for the Build mode? I realize that may not be something to be offered until, and if, there ever is a "GUI" based implementation for Build mode, e.g. such as Nero. But, in Build's current configuration, I was thinking something that could be done was a create and then navigating into that folder as the windows main view. Then, Browse for a file works the same way. Or, use a + type of tree display, highlight a folder that is created, then any actions such as create further folders, add further files, etc. are added into that highlighted folder.

Okay, installed Sandra... NOW what. Lots of options.

Nope, wouldn't be any good. I would be actively trying to influence a negative force which I had no hand in directing my way into a positive force in my favor. Not only would it fail miserably, but, the cosmic balance would detect the attempt, go "THAT FUCKER!" and send a Ting Effect my way. (Ting being that sound you always hear magic wands make in TV, etc. when they touch something to affect them.) TE's are also known as God Problems. Makes perfect sense. It's you and not me. You know? That I did not know. Is that just USB 1.x or also USB 2? I can't think of when I've ever actively done this, but, I would think I have before. They may have queued, but, never failed. Okay, let's see what it has to say here in a bit.

What the Hell are you talking about? That it's somehow swapping USB for Bluetooth?

Well, that's not entirely what I'm seeing. While that icon does appear in the Notification Area, no window that says that pops up. What I entered is what comes up when I double click on the icon that appears.

I dug up my USB 2.0 PCI card that I haven't used in like 4 years. Belkin. So, anything I should know? e.g. this card is so old it doesn't have X? Why I don't go out and just buy my way out of the problem is I'm broke. Plus, if I don't give up enough "sacrifice" to the forces that be to make it worthwhile for them, then, going out and buying something to fix the problem won't work. This thing that is "breaking" replaced something else from last year. As for USB 2.0 Root Hub in Device Manager, no, unless it would be somewhere else other than under Universal Serial Bus controllers. I don't have any USB 2 hubs connected. Which also made me wonder about the message. Unless they consider the internal ports as hubs. Which, with these fuckers, you never know. I do have a USB 2 hub I got with the PCI card, but, it's not hooked up at the moment. There IS an old USB 1.x GE hub attached, though. BUT, I am connecting the USB 2.0 drives directly into ports on the back of the PC. No hubs.

OKAY... I connected the drive up to the front ports with a different cable. GOT get the same old message as before! I HADN'T gotten it before on the front ports, I don't think. I can't remember anymore. Fuckers! Still got about 27 KB/s I/O Rate, though. Anyway, the message that comes up is: HI-SPEED USB Device Attached To non-HI-SPEED Hub I think what I'll try next is to see if it's any of the other USB devices next. Just disconnect them ALL and connect them one at a time, disconnect, and reconnect them and check.

Ran HDDT on the other USB 2.0 drive (Well, at least the USB cable connected to it says USB 2.0 on it. It's a weird beast, has a large alligator type clip on the end that connects to the drive.) and though it, too, did not finish its read, it was at 31,6xx KB/s I/O Rate. BTW, I am guessing this is what is meant by benchmarking the drive with HDDT? Running a Verify on it and checking the I/O Rate? So, according to this, am I to infer that the USB in this machine actually is not high speed at all? Somewhere, I had a USB 2.0 PCI card for my last PC, since that machine was made in 1999. I may try inserting the card and running the tests and checking. In the meantime, anyone else have a suggestion I try next?

Okay, the Verify hasn't completed yet, because it says it will take another hour and 20 minutes to finish... after running for 15 minutes... where it said it still needed an hour and 20 minutes. Device: [0:0:0] HDS72251 6VLAT20 (R:) (USB) Device Sectors: 321,672,960 Device Size: 164,696,555,520 bytes After 28,xxx,xxx,xxx bytes, the I/O rate is at 28,3xx KB/s In terms of practical application, though I never let the jobs finish, Windows said it was going to take 50 minutes to copy an approximate 4 GB MDS/MDF file from the USB drive to the SATA drive. ImgBurn said it was going to need the same amount of time to burn the image to a 4x DVD+RW. However, ImgBurn was never able to get beyond a little over 2x because of the USB drive being in use. The access light would be on for a while, go out, and the write rate would drop to 0.0x while ImgBurn was waiting for the drive to stop thrashing. Now, all this seems to me to be a little slow. However, I ever actually benchmarked any of this before. Should these values be of concern to me about this drive?

I was wondering if HDDT might be able to help. But, I wasn't entirely sure what values I needed to get. Been a while since I tried it out, too. I'll try to remember to try it.

*I* didn't load any, no. But, who knows what the fuck Windows will do on you.

Let me ask. Is the Lite/free version of Sandra going to perform these benchmark tests? Don't want to waste my time otherwise. Thanks!