Re: "Device not ready" (CDBurn)

On 6 Jan, Wendy Gray wrote in message
<800a04e54d.Wendy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> In message <034f93e44d.ri48000239@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Liz <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > In message <4ed98de44d.Wendy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Wendy Gray <newsgrps@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > BTW, did you fit the upgrade yourself? I was all set to do so, when
> > > I bought it, but then I got these complicated instructions about
> > > putting in an extra hard drive and transfering everything and then
> > > putting it all back... and the potential for disaster loomed and
> > > courage failed. It's not like we can just pop down the road to ask
> > > an expert.
>
> > No. I wanted quite a few things done at the same time, so I sent it
> > off to CJE: bigger HD, more RAM, 4.02, CD writer and !CDWrite.
>
> We really dare not 'send' our computer anywhere.

The extra hard disc isn't necessary, though changing to the new disc
format is a good idea eventually. If you ask a dealer to help, you may as
well get the disc done at that point (I'd hope a RO4 installer would have
facilities for backing up and restoring a disc).

That said, if your disc is 7 years old, I would think that now would be a
good time to buy a new one, format it to the new format, and copy all your
data across.

> > AFAIK the longer names in RO4.02 don't work with !Impression
> > documents, or at least not v4.13 which I have.
>
> Ah, now there is another worry - compatibility.

Impression works fine with RISC OS 4. The only problem I know of is that
it is unhappy if you rename a file with >10 characters in the name from
the filer: Impression will load it, but things can get wobbly after that.
Impression won't let you save files with >10 chars in the name, so it
isn't that much of a problem.

> ATM everything works fine. I do remember having problems with installing
> Impression onto this computer, when we got it, because of the SA chip.
> Lots of other things needed patching as well, especially games. I've a
> LOT of work in Impression form, which I'd hate to loose.

Why would you lose them?

If you've already got the SA, then RO4 isn't a big deal. The SA upgrade
will break a lot of things; RO4 (IME) didn't -- I did RO4 first and then
upgraded to an SA.

> I'm begining to think a Saturday in Utrecht is called for, to see if
> Desk can help us out.

It's worth doing. There are a lot of small things in RO4/5 that seem
silly when mentioned but are indispensable once they become familiar.

If nothing else, the improved speed and stability of the OS over RO3
should be a good reason to get the ROMs off the shelf and into your
machine.

--
Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

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