[Mike Rivers]

On Mar 25, 3:43 pm, "Richard Crowley" wrote:

OTOH, that fragile connector on the PCMCIA card and
the break-out cable were always problematic. Want a
spare?

I haven't broken mine yet but it doesn't fit as snugly as it useter.
I'd love a spare. The fact that most of the time the laptop is on a
shelf and the cable is secured to the shelf with those DB-25ish screws
that come with it, so it doesn't get a lot of hard use. I commented to
Digigram that I thought that would be the first thing to go, and they
said, yes, they've sold a good number of replacements. But many PCMCIA
cards are like that, at least until they figured out that people would
put up with a lump on the end.

As Mr. Payne observed, large external drives are so cheap
there is no pracical excuse for not backing up all that stuff
anyway (just as a hedge against hard drive failure, etc.)

I do that occasionally - not daily, but at least monthly, and things
that I know I'll need are usually copied to another computer, plus I
keep a box of CDs of all the software that I've downloaded. Backup
isn't a problem. But finding a really clean point that you can go back
to sometimes is.

Still, this isn't about backup, it's about why RightMark won't work
with any of my interfaces on any of my computers.

Another issue is why Windows Service Pack 2 won't completely install
(and therefore, I believe undoes everything it managed to cram down
the computer's throat) on the older of these two laptops. Maybe
there's something in (or missing from) the Dell version of Windows
that's keeping the update from running to completion. Or maybe it's
simply that I waited too long before trying to update to SP2 (I wanted
all of that Firewire mess to go away since Firewire audio was working
fine) and it's missing a piece that it needs to update to SP2.