>>Regarding the CD-R; what are you using? I've not run into problems with my (now antique) HP 7201 and the stock drivers for the Adaptec HAs in RC2. If you're using something like CD Creator or DirectCD from Adaptec, there's no Win2K support yet AFAIK, but Win2K should understand the CD-R medium, at least with SCSI-2 compliant drives.
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>I got a Sony drive that came with its own software. I also have CD Creator, but neither works under Win2000. The CD is visible, but it's not recognized as a CD-R. It'll need a driver update from Sony to get that to work.
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SCSI does has advantages at times :)

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>>And then there's the lazy approach of keeping a box with Win98 or NT 4 and your CD-R up on your LAN! Accessing a share, both CD Creator and DirectCD don't care what the native file system looks like, as long as it can keep pace with the CD-R drive when recording to the media.
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>The problem is that my working box is a notebook, so it doesn't have a CD-R. The desktop is Win2000 and Win98 for those things that don't work. Win2000 is working Ok - I only have two things that don't work:
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>* The CD-R
>* My HP Laserjet 3100
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>The latter is kind of important <g> since I blew up my Notebook install when upgrading to NTSP5 (lost all PCMCIA support).
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>It's not been a happy few days especially since the two machines can't talk now since the net card doesn't work.
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Yuck. Can't you get the 3100 up with a backwards-compatible driver? I've never used the 3100, but I do use the 4050 by mis-identifying it where I'm sharing it...the 4000 series HP driver is not wonderful.