On Apr 13, 4:56*pm, T8 wrote:
On Apr 13, 6:12*pm, Eric Greenwell wrote:





T8 wrote:
On Apr 13, 2:02 pm, Dave *wrote:

(1) Winscore, or any scoring program, could care less what
kind of media used for the files. The scorer may however
complain if you show up with 5.25" floppy disks.

Winscore doesn't care. *However the operating system does take a while
longer to recognize a USB drive. *Experience shows that SD cards beat
any other option in the scoring shack by a country mile.

-T8

What are scorers using for the OS - Win 98? Me? My XP computers find and
display a USB drive in 5-6 seconds vs 4-5 seconds for an SD card, not
enough time to go that country mile, even with 50 entrants. Does the
problem come from having 50 different USB drives, instead just 5 or 6
different ones?

--
Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (netto to net to email me)

Leo (Buckley) could tell you more, but afaik he doesn't read r.a.s.
On his system -- I've watched this -- SD cards are recognized much
faster than USB drives. *If we all used USB drives with identical
drivers it would probably be a non-issue.

-T8

Could it be that the scorer usually has the SD card reader plugged in
and recognized by the computer and that somehow speeds the mounting of
individual contestants' SD cards whereas the USB drives need to get
recognized independently for each contestant?

9B