Ed,

I replied to this same message sent to support@sonicfoundry.com and you reported that
my fix did allow the Philips CDD3610 to work with CD Architect under NT 4.0. I will copy this here for the benefit of users who may be experiencing the same issue.

From: Tom Hamer
Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 8:54 AM
To: 'Edward A. Aviza'
Subject: RE: CD Architect won't connect to drive


Ed,

Under NT, we sometimes are able to make a CD-R be recognized
by forcing the use of ASPI. Without going into a technical
explanation, here is what we would like you to try. Browse
to your Windows NT directory and locate the file "forge32.ini"
or "forgxp32.ini". Open this file in Notepad. Add the following
line under the Metrics section:

[Metrics]
3307=1

This will force Windows NT to use ASPI to address the drive and should allow it to be automatically detected under Options, Select Drive.


Ed Aviza wrote:
>>I have Sound Forge 4.5b and CDArchitect 4.0e running on
>>Windows NT 4.0. When I run CD Arch from Sound Forge, every
>>time I run it I am asked to select the CDR drive I want to
>>use. And, every time I select my CDR drive, which is
>>correctly listed automatically by CD Arch as: Philips
>>CDD3610 CD-R/RW 3.08 (1,0). However, the status bar at the
>>bottom of the screen still says "No CD-R currently
>>selected" even after I've select this drive. So then when
>>I try to click "Disk" then "Write Audio" from the menu to
>>write my project to the CD, it says "You need to select a
>>CDR drive, do you wish to do this now?" and I click "Yes"
>>which brings up the same select CDR dialog that came up
>>when I first launched CD Arch. I select my Philips drive
>>again, click OK, then the "You need to select a CDR drive,
>>do you wish to do this now?" dialog comes up again, and I
>>repeat this process ad infinitum... whenever I select the
>>drive and click OK, the dialog box telling me I need to
>>select a drive always reappears, and CD Architect, while
>>apparently aware of the existence of my drive, won't
>>actually let me USE it. When I look at the drive
>>properties for the Philips drive from the select CDR dialog
>>box, the info is all correct in terms of read and write
>>speed, etc., but CD Arch simply will not let me USE the
>>drive.
>>
>>What can I do? I've looked at the FAQ page on your web
>>site but none of the information helped, I have the most
>>current drivers for my drive, etc., and I'm not on a
>>network, though I am running NT Server.
>>