Think it could be something to do with either normal CD's or burned ones?

3DO Blaster? That's a pretty exotic configuration you have thar. If I'm not mistaken, that works with one and only one specific model of Creative CD-ROM drive; are you sure you have the right one?

If I understand you correctly, the CD tray not opening or closing suggests that if it's not a power supply issue, the drive itself is mechanically failing. Try a different connector on the power supply, or try replacing the power supply completely.

Tetrium wrote:

Think it could be something to do with either normal CD's or burned ones?

There is no cd in at all. Either way that makes no difference

Jorpho wrote:

3DO Blaster? That's a pretty exotic configuration you have thar. If I'm not mistaken, that works with one and only one specific model of Creative CD-ROM drive; are you sure you have the right one?

If I understand you correctly, the CD tray not opening or closing suggests that if it's not a power supply issue, the drive itself is mechanically failing. Try a different connector on the power supply, or try replacing the power supply completely.

Its definately the right one buddy cos when its going it works well. I am not too sure whether its a mechanical issue or not. As before it boots up DOS, the cd rom drive appears to be working fine ie it ejects and closes. But sometimes it freezes when DOS loads up the cd rom drivers. As for the power supply it is a new old stock one. It is a 300w one and slightly more powerful than the previous one. I had this trouble initially with the older power supply but somehow managed to sort it out! I could check the power connecters I guess

CU_AMiGA wrote:

Its definately the right one buddy cos when its going it works well.

Except sometimes it doesn't. 😉

The other thing that might be worth checking is if the drive works when it's connected directly to an appropriate motherboard rather than to the 3DO Blaster or some other controller card.

Jorpho wrote:

CU_AMiGA wrote:

Its definately the right one buddy cos when its going it works well.

Except sometimes it doesn't. 😉

The other thing that might be worth checking is if the drive works when it's connected directly to an appropriate motherboard rather than to the 3DO Blaster or some other controller card.

I think creative cd rom drives only work on creative products dont they? Or would it work if I plugged it in the ide slot on the sbc? I have no spare motherboard

The drive is a Matsushita CR-563, right? It uses the Panasonic/Matsushita interface. So you'd need a sound card or interface card with that and the driver to go with it.

swaaye wrote:

The drive is a Matsushita CR-563, right? It uses the Panasonic/Matsushita interface. So you'd need a sound card or interface card with that and the driver to go with it.

Correct. So I can use it with either the 3do blaster or the soundblaster 16

Make sure it's a SB16 with that Panasonic CD interface. There are a variety of SB16s.

swaaye wrote:

Make sure it's a SB16 with that Panasonic CD interface. There are a variety of SB16s.

yeah the one i have installed has the interface. but i didnt bother using (testing) on that as i have it connected to the 3do blaster (in order for it to be usable with the 3do).

nope that didnt work either! anyone else got any ideas?

ps i think i put this thread in the wrong place can the mods please move it?!

cheers

Watch for another CR-563 to show up on ebay? 😀

-moved to Marvin

Hi

update here. i have tried a higher powered psu and i have tried a different cd rom drive (same model). and still the same results. i have also connected the cd rom drive to the soundblaster card only and it seems to work fine (although i might test for longer). i dont know what to do here and its not looking good. the only other thing i could try is another soundblaster card.

regards

what version of drivers are you using?

hi

i am not quite sure which version it is but heres the link to the version i got:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/60o08qxsegzsx49/cr563b.zip

i have also tried connecting a different soundcard and graphics card (to rule that out) and still same results. i might have a go at reinstalling the whole of the cd drivers software. anyone got anymore suggestions?

regards

holy shit that is ancient!
the version number is displayed when the driver loads during boot

you need to get a newer version... that driver is too old and buggy
go download SBCDW95.EXE from here:
http://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Hardware/CreativeLa … om/sbcddw95.exe
it is version 4.22 and is the latest one

i will give the above a try but it looks like it is for win 95 (i have win 3.11 installed). also it says i have ver 4.22 on bootup! 🤣

it's for both!
read the readme file

ah! yes i ve now seen it! i tried installing it but it froze when it was "analysing" the autoexec file! i think i may need to unintsall the whole cd software lot and start again! 🤣 i guess i can do this by manually deleting old files and using the old autoexec file?! regards