I have Adaptec directCD on my Win 98 computer with CD-Writter Plus. 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. I know very little about the computer or this program, thought some one might give me some clues as what to do to make it work. It also won't write a CD, just won't work. Thanks in advance.

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Hello Linda,

"Adaptec DirectCD" is one of the "UDF" format writer/reader applications.  (Meaning 
"drop and drag".)  That method of writing/reading to disks is not very reliable. 
 Consider_ burning CDs using the what I believe is called the "ISO" format - burn 
by way of the usual m_ethod, rather than drop and drag.

The most reliable alternative method (to drop and drag UDF) is to specify a CD-RW 
as a multi-sesssion CD and copy with it only one folder, in which you have placed 
the file you want to copy.  Whenever you want to make a change, always make the change 
(or copy the file) to that same folder and then do a new session to the CD - the 
CD-RW is then updated from that folder.  

If you don't have that sort of burning software, you could purchase the following_ 
"Nero 6.6" for £7.92, from:

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=23424481844&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=92894

I would mention that in the list of its functions you will see "InCD4" mentioned, 
which is the equivalent of "Adaptec's DirectCD" and as mentioned above I would 
NOT recommend that method of burning.  
Instead use the main application: "Nero Burning ROM", or "Nero Express" which contains 
wizards .

Note that Nero may not function unless you uninstall all Adaptec CD burning software!

I hope that helps.

Regards.







On Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 11:12 am, Linda wrote:

>I have Adaptec directCD on my Win 98 computer with CD-Writter Plus.  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.  I know very little about the computer or 
this 

>program, thought some one might give me some clues as what to do to make it work. 

> It also won't write a CD, just won't work.  Thanks in advance.
 

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"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.

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was: ADAPTEC DirectCD

|I get this message when I try to play a CD
| Linda

Your description is very sketchy.

It could be that the thing worked at one time
and it has increasingly given problems--eventually not working at all.
In that case, get a lens cleaner and use it.
If the drive is very old, the laser LED could be degraded past reliability
and you need to replace the drive.

It could be that the thing worked at one time and suddenly didn't.
In that case, it could be a corrupt device driver,
meaning that the old driver should be removed and a replacement installed.

It could be that the drive is brand new and you have never seen it work.
In that case, it needs to be connected with a power cable and a signal cable,
jumpered properly, and needs a device driver installed.

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Thanks, guys for the valuable informtion.


On Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 10:38 pm, gewg_ wrote:
>was: ADAPTEC DirectCD
>
>|I get this message when I try to play a CD
>| Linda
>
>Your description is very sketchy.
>
>It could be that the thing worked at one time
>and it has increasingly given problems--eventually not working at all.
>In that case, get a lens cleaner and use it.
>If the drive is very old, the laser LED could be degraded past reliability
>and you need to replace the drive.
>
>It could be that the thing worked at one time and suddenly didn't.
>In that case, it could be a corrupt device driver,
>meaning that the old driver should be removed and a replacement installed.
>
>It could be that the drive is brand new and you have never seen it work.
>In that case, it needs to be connected with a power cable and a signal cable,
>jumpered properly, and needs a device driver installed.

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Hi Linda.

How come the drive letter is M:? How many drives or partitions do you have?

I use Cequadrat PacketCD which is a drag & drop method of writing CD's, but it isn't 
reliable.

As mentioned InCD4 comes with Nero but it won't let you install if you have PacketCD 
or another drag/drop software installed. I didn't know Adaptec's DirectCD was the 
same type of software.

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