CD Architect NOT seeing my CD drives

clarksil wrote on 11/15/2002, 6:47 PM
As the heading says, SF, Acid and CDA are not seeing all of my CD drives as thay were in the past. Using SF 6.0d and Acid 4a and CDA 5 demo. Interestingly, Wavelab 4.0 F is also not seeing them. Any ideas are greatly appreciated.
P2, 512 ram, Win ME, Layla 20, EZ bus, 2 burners (Sony and SAF0 and 1 DVD Rom drive

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SonyDennis wrote on 11/15/2002, 10:58 PM
Have any BIOS or other system settings changed? Have you completely powered down the system and booted it back up? If none of your software can see you drive after that, something is up with the hardware. I'm not aware of anything CDA5 could have done to "hide" drives from all of your software. What interfaces do the burners use?
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clarksil wrote on 11/16/2002, 6:50 AM
No changes to the BIOS that I'm aware of. Actually, CDA5 sees my scsi burner but does not see my IDE burner. This is not good, because the scsi is older and only writes at 2x, whereas the ide can write up to 12x. To clear things, the extract audio function in my programs does not see the ide burner. For example, in Acid, I can access the ide burner in the explorer, but not in the extract audio function. Same in the other progs.
clarksil wrote on 11/16/2002, 9:14 AM
OK, here is something interesting. The problems started because I uninstalled Nero CD Burning Rom. When I reinstall it, the drives show up again in the extract audio functions of all programs!! Apparently, when uninstalling Nero, it removes something that prohibits my other progs from seeing the drives in the extract audio function. If I just delete the Nero program without uninstalling, the other progs work. It is definitely a software problem. Maybe registry keys?? I don't know, but would like to find out, because I remember a version of Acid doing the same thing sometime back. At least it is working again, but any ideas anyone??
inspector wrote on 11/18/2002, 9:37 AM
I had a similar problem with Nero killing my drive access. It was a while back and I don't remember which version it was. Reinstalling the Adaptec ASPI layer corrected the problem. I have installed a newer version of Nero with no problems.

Steve
clarksil wrote on 11/18/2002, 1:22 PM
Ironically, uninstalling Nero with its uninstaller creates the problem, then when I reinstall Nero, it fixes it. It must definitely be a shared file that Nero is uninstalling. I just manually deleted Nero, because I don't use it, and the drives are still recognized. I would really like to know which folder(s) and file(s) are neeeded so that I may make sure in the future this doesn't happen. I remember an upgrade of acid or sound forge (I forget which one) also created this problem, and then a subsequent upgrade fixed it. Ah, for the old days, when I just used a 4 track and guitars, etc. I actually got to spend most of my time creating music, instead of fixing software problems!!! Too addicted to change back at this point however!
drbam wrote on 11/19/2002, 8:49 AM
<<Ah, for the old days, when I just used a 4 track and guitars, etc. I actually got to spend most of my time creating music, instead of fixing software problems!!! Too addicted to change back at this point however! >>

GOT THAT RIGHT!!! Personally I don't miss the 4 track but there are many times when I yearn for the rock solid stability of my ADATs! Like you said though, I'm WAY too addicted to this new technology to consider returning to that mode. . . ;-O

drbam