CD Rom Drive Problems

bbb_uk

Miroslav wrote:

....DMA not ticked is sync data transfer.....

By default DMA is not enabled on the older Win9x/Me systems. Try enabling DMA for your cdrom drive to see if this helps. If not then just simply untick it again.

See here and/or here for info on enabling DMA in WinME for CDROM drives.

DMA has to be supported by your motherboard and cdrom drive and is automatically enabled for the harddrive provided your motherboard supports DMA but it is not automatically enabled by default for CDROM drives.

After enabling DMA for your CDROM drive then reset your computer for changes to take effect. It may ask for WinME disc but not sure as can't remember much about the WinME days!

bbb_uk

T4i wrote:

....I know some progs like Alcohol 120% create a virtual device (a scsi one i think)

It does use a SCSI driver for creating any virtual drives. It's called "A347SCSI SCSI Controller", the driver itself is "a347scsi.sys".

Miroslav

T4i wrote:

No, i think you need to format.

I'd try to download some IDE drivers for your chipset. You should not have any SCSI devices if you have no SCSI hardware. I know some progs like Alcohol 120% create a virtual device (a scsi one i think)

hmmmmmm.

I'm totally out of my depth

Miroslav

bbb_uk wrote:

By default DMA is not enabled on the older Win9x/Me systems. Try enabling DMA for your cdrom drive to see if this helps. If not then just simply untick it again.

See here and/or here for info on enabling DMA in WinME for CDROM drives.

DMA has to be supported by your motherboard and cdrom drive and is automatically enabled for the harddrive provided your motherboard supports DMA but it is not automatically enabled by default for CDROM drives.

After enabling DMA for your CDROM drive then reset your computer for changes to take effect. It may ask for WinME disc but not sure as can't remember much about the WinME days!

Deselected/reselected...

Made no difference

Although i managed to burn a CD, only for it not to close the session :mad:

It seems the only problem I have is with blank discs, all the others work fine.....maybe it's the discs? But they are TDK and worked before

Miroslav

Searched SCSI on my PC and Norton uses them....as does Nero... as does system32....???

T4i

Miroslav wrote:

Searched SCSI on my PC and Norton uses them....as does Nero... as does system32....???

Do you know what chipset you are running? If not do you know the make/model of the motherboard in your p.c?

T4i

Don't you have a copy of Win98SE? Its 100% better than ME.

Miroslav

T4i wrote:

Do you know what chipset you are running? If not do you know the make/model of the motherboard in your p.c?

Sorry, not a clue on either

I might buy a single CD-R and CD-RW disc and try them out, to se if it's the discs.

Miroslav

T4i wrote:

Don't you have a copy of Win98SE? Its 100% better than ME.

Nope, always used ME

Toxteth_OGrady

More ideas to try here.

.............and yes, I do realize it's for XP but it contains some pertinent pointers.

:cool:

TOG