Lock Volume-Exclusive access

[chewy]

what does this do exactly, someone is reporting problems with another program, spti not available when imgburn is running/burning

 

they are using seperate burners and seperate serial hard drives with both programs

[LIGHTNING UK!]

It tells the OS to only allow access to the drive from the process that initiated the lock.

 

Other programs that try to access the drive will find they get an error back from the 'CreateFile' API call - as would be used by SPTI.

 

Other drives ARE still accessible - you can test this by simply burning something and opening a 2nd instance of ImgBurn. It'll report the error with the 'locked' drive but the others will still visible / available for use.

 

Perhaps the other program is not dealing with the 'CreateFile' API error correctly. Maybe it's seeing the error and just totally giving up instead of trying the next drive etc.

[chewy]

thanks LUK,

 

until the other program gets fixed I am trying to get the guy to test unchecking "lock access"

 

something tells me imgburn will still work

[chewy]

delete dup

Edited December 20, 2006 by chewy

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Yes of course it will still work, it wouldn't be an 'option' otherwise!

 

It just means other programs can screw up the burn much more easily - including Explorer itself.

[blutach]

Yes, other progs are available for SPTI. The prog you are referring to Chewy has a bug, I am sure.

 

Regards