Re: Need help from digital backup experts - UDF & SP2

Today All Things Mopar commented courteously on the subject
at hand

I appreciate the interest in helping me, but what I am looking
for is a) someone who knows what I am talking about, b) has
experienced it themselves, and c) have successfully fixed it.
Everybody else with "did you try this or that or the other
thing are just throw darts and not even hitting the wall, much
less the target.

So, please, yes, give me your thoughts, but I've been working
on this, as have my nephew, his partner and my two friends for
months, so "lite" solutions here aren't going to do it. I need
someone who swings a heavy bat, and fully understands the
nature of UDF and the pecularities of all the changes in SP2,
one of which I am convinced killed UDF for 5 people.

Thank you again.

Hi, all. I like to again thank all those who provided the
suggestions and food for thought on my Canon Rebel XT lens
and carrying request for recomendations. Now, here's a much
tougher nut to crack.

My October, 2005 custom-built PC runs Win XP Pro SP2 with
all updates. I have a Lite On CD/DVD reader and a Lite On
CD/DVD burner. Processor is AMD 3700, ATI Radeon graphics,
and 4 gig of memory.

*Existing* CD-Rs burned on my still alive XP Pro SP1 PC
with EZ CD Creator 5 & UDF immediately crash my SP2 box
upon AutoPlay attempting to scan them - Blue Screen Of
Death. The message coming back from MS is that it is a
driver error and to contact the manufacturer. Except that
the manufacturer is MS itself. If I manage to get them to
mount, they'll crash before I can get the data off. I can
provide upon request the stop code and Event Viewer logs
that show the exact part of the MS device driver that
crashes

DVD-Rs burned on the S2 box using Easy Media Creator 8 and
UDF 102 /sometimes/ load OK and can be scanned using My
Computer, but eventually one or more files are encountered
that cause the same crash.

Data is largely MP3 and JPEG, but there's also some general
data, including downloaded executables. It matters not what
media brand I use. I can find nothing in the MS KB and very
little by Googling, and there is nothing on Lite On's web
site that suggests I need a firmware upgrade. My computer
builder swapped out a Lite On and put a Sony it, but it
crashed also.

Joliet CD-R and DVD-R are 100.000% solid. One other thing
worth mentioning, UDF allows up to 32 character volume
names and at least 115 character file names, while Joliet
only allows 15 and 64, respectively. If I can mount a UDF
disc on my SP2 box, it truncates the long volume name to
15.

I can verify the problem exists by Googling, but no one
seems to have found a solution. Again, my computer builder
(and nephew) and his business partner, as well as a couple
personal friends can /all/ verify this SP2-specific "bug",
which is really bugging me! Hard to believe my good friends
in Redmond won't even acknowledge it.

I am Ivory Soap Pure sure that this is a broken piece of
SP2 base code, but there is a small chance that one of the
dozens of updates had a side-effect bug. It doesn't seem
probable to me that 4 different PCs with the only common
thing being SP2 exhibit the same behavior for it not to be
SP2-sppeecific. It really flummoxes me how 250,000+ beta
tests of XP Pro SP2 never reported this, of if they did,
why M$ hasn't at least posted a work-around

Anybody got any ideas? Please don't suggest I use Joliet, I
need/want the longer file names, and you good people know
how stubborn I can be. <griin>

These very same older and brand new CD-R discs read 100%
correctly on my old SP1 box and even read OK on my very old
Win 98 box, so the problem only be specific to a bug in
SP2, since a Sony drive also failed.

Thank you profusely in advance for any hints on how to
diagnose this. Better still, a solution.




--
ATM, aka Jerry
.

Relevant Pages

  • Need help from digital backup experts - UDF & SP2
    ... carrying request for recomendations. ... 2005 custom-built PC runs Win XP Pro SP2 with all ... I have a Lite On CD/DVD reader and a Lite On CD/DVD ... Joliet CD-R and DVD-R are 100.000% solid. ...
    (rec.photo.digital)
  • UDF CD-R crashes in Win XP Pro SP2
    ... New PC, Win XP Pro SP2, all updates. ... Lite On CD/DVD burner. ... *All* CD-Rs burned on either my older PC with Win XP Pro SP1 ... PC with EZ CD Creator 5 using UDF or my new PC using Easy ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.device_driver.dev)
  • Re: Need help from digital backup experts - UDF & SP2
    ... carrying request for recomendations. ... 2005 custom-built PC runs Win XP Pro SP2 with all ... I have a Lite On CD/DVD reader and a Lite On CD/DVD ... DVD-Rs burned on the S2 box using Easy Media Creator 8 and UDF ...
    (rec.photo.digital)
  • Re: Need help from digital backup experts - UDF & SP2
    ... DVD-R all crash SP2. ... UDF DVD-Rs, but I have verified 4 months ago, and right up to ... and Roxio 8 /all/ work OK on SP1. ... cllarify some, in my particular case, the Win XP Pro install CD ...
    (rec.photo.digital)
  • Re: Switching fat32 to NTFS and Back Again
    ... UDF (packet writing) has always been problematic.. ... MVP - Windows Shell/User ... We do that because our systems work with SP2 installed, ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)