On Apr 14, 12:08*am, Andy wrote:
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

Here's an excerpt from the email Leo sent out to R5 entrants (all 65
of 'em):

"So, my preference for flight logs is the following:

1 – Memory Cards such as “Secure Digital” or “Compact Flash”

2 – USB Thumbdrives. These take longer than memory cards because the
operating system has to find a driver and load it for each Thumbdrive
the first time the computer sees the Thumbdrive. Succeeding reads
take less time but are still slower than memory cards because the
drive has to be installed.

There is one other problem, which is mostly with “Cruzer”
thumbdrives. These seem to have programs on them that automatically
start and run, which totally blocks my computer from reading the
flight log. So, please, NO Cruzers. Instead get an ordinary cheap
small thumbdrive and use it.

3- 3 ½ inch Floppy Disks. Although pretty obsolete, I can still read
them.

4– Direct downloads from Loggers.

A - I have the hardware and software to download the older Cambridge
Model 10, 20, or 25 loggers.

B – I have the hardware and software to download Volksloggers with
the RJ-11 connector.

C – EWA Microrecorders have a USB connection and behave like a
thumbdrive ."

-T8