re: ADAPTEC DirectCD
Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 10:01 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by dhm
(966 messages posted)
"It isn't working, I get this message when I try to play a CD, ' M:\ is not accessible.
The device is not ready' which it never gets ready."
That sounds like a hardware problem. I had a CDRW like that. I got it at a big
discount at an office supply store. Functioning was always hit or miss. I finally
solved the problem when I bought a game that needed DVD and CDROM capabilities and
I got a middling priced DVD CDRW. Now I don't have a problem.
In both cases the software was Nero Burning. I couldn't get the cheapie to write
anyway. It was supposed to be a 52x-24x item. I succeeded when I went thru the
Nero menus and found a place to slow down the writing to 8x.
I must say, the new version of Nero Burning is much easier to use.
Another point. There is a strange cultural tradition that the CD drive be mounted
highest in the case. At that location hot air cannot rise from it and you may find
the discs hot when you take them out. The answer for that is to defy tradition and
put the floppy drive at the top. It doesn't generate much heat and it is small and
heat from the CD drive will flow up around it.
One software detail about Nero. They do something they shouldn't do. They put 3
copies of MSVCRT.DLL in the Program Files. There should only be one copy of that
on the computer and it should be the latest. That is available from Microsoft and
is in a program named SPEU.EXE which has the latest version and updates of several
other files. For unknown reasons, the normal Windows Update does not do this. The
latest version is 285 KB and is dated May 5, 2001.
- Written in response to:
- re: ADAPTEC DirectCD (gabriele hauschild: Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 6:32 pm)
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