It's sad really, The Spressa CRX100E/X2 looked like a good buy
considering it was USB and supported both MAC and PC platforms. My
thought was to use this drive on both as I will soon have a mac and
PC. Last night I re-installed my trusty yamaha 4416sx and lo and
behold it worked like a charm w/ no changes to any drivers. I will
have to install Direct CD from Adaptec, but Cd Architect worked
great. On a side note I was finally able to get the spressa to be
recognized by the system w/out installing CD Extreme (the software
that "supposedly" caused problems w/ Cd Architect in the first
place).. Regardless, CD arch would see the drive and start the burn
(the initial phase) once it got to 99% through the first phase, the
thing would hang. Essentially the only option left was a cold boot.
even after dropping the burn speed to 2x the same problem would
occure, infact it wouldn't even get through the first phase.. (hung
at 0%) - what can I say, all other USB devices in my system work like
a charm, no hitches. Actually the spressa works great with CD
Extreme as it's only burning software. - I had to tweak CD Extreme a
bit but eventually I had it running fine previous to installing CD
Architect. All I can say is after looking at the nature of the
drivers for the spressa (Onspec Atapi + IDE (miniport+USB)) they
sucked ass. Very specific install - one step wrong and a totall
recall of all drivers had to be done in safemode (remove all USB)
then re-install all USB in normal mode, reboot, then plug in spressa
and install the ONSpec individual drivers (available from sonys site
only) -

Another note, under system/devices/CD-ROMS the spressa shows up as
CRX120E transversly, this is also true in CD Architect. Skrewed up
sums it up.

athlon 650
asus k7m mobo (latest bios/+asus drivers for win98se)
256 m/ram
etc..

- hey SonicFoundry, maybe you should not support the spressa? I can't
imagine you actually got one of these to work right considering the
nature of the drivers?! Sure it shows up as a usuable device in your
drive chooser, but it sure as F*#$ isn't working... Has this unit
been tested with an actual burn or two under cda4.0g? - hmmmmmm

-r96

Erick Broell wrote:
>>
>>Yah
>>
>>Firstly, download the CD Architect version 4.0g update off of this
>>site. Otherwise you wont be able to see the drive. w/o it.
>>Secondly, pray... - mine froze up half way through a burn
crx100e/x2
>>sony spressa. - upon reboot - win98 said I had a new USB device
and
>>toasted my original Onspec atapi drivers. I was unable to re-
install
>>the sony drivers - or the stand alone ONspec drivers - I ended up
>>calling tech support at sony ... I had to unninstall SF 4.5 all
USB
>>devices and re-build everything. Even after this, my spressa is
now
>>still un-opperational - fucked up. The gent at Sony told me that
>>their CD Extreme software will not run happily if you install other
>>burning software I.E. CD Architect. - Obviously they were right.
>>Further more, the CD Extreme software they give you blows ass - ohh
>>sure, it's good for those who just want to drag and drop shit on
CD,
>>but, there is no .WAV editing and marker support for creating
>>multiple tracks w/ crossover's off one file. (I need this as I
>>sometimes DJ straight into the PC. IE one big wav file) So, I
highly
>>recommend trashing this unit and buying one that has full support
by
>>SonicFoundry. (infact Bundled w/ SF and CD arch) PS, if you techs
at
>>SF are reading this, please, enlighten me as to what I can do?! is
>>there something more I can obtain (software drivers etc) that will
>>allow this fucking unit to work correctly w/ CD architect?
>>-r96
>>
>>FRED JONES wrote:
>>>>I cant get my usb cd burner to be recognized by cd
>>>>arcitecht. are usb devices compatible with sound forge
>>>>products? when I use the advance feature to make my burner
>>>>recognized by cd arch it keeps freezing up, and when it
>>>>dont freeze up it keeps saying no disc and none of the
>>>>buttons work unless i disconnect the cd burner. the model
>>>>im using is a sony usb crx100e (spressa). if anyone can
>>>>help me out i would be forever in your debt i tried
>>>>EVERYTHING possible. If its not compatible then im out of
>>>>luck. :(