First post, by obobskivich
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Alright, this isn't a high-priority issue, but I'm kind of curious about it so if anyone has a simple fix or explanation I'll take it, but if it never gets "solved" it won't harm the machine that I can tell:
I recently got the Creative DVD-Encore 12x package for my Win98 box, which included a 12x Creative DVD-ROM drive. The drive itself works fine, and the whole setup plays DVD Video just fine in Windows 98 (basically it does what the box says it does). However, according to the user's manual, it's also supposed to be able to read DVD data discs. Whenever I put such a disc in, it acts like there's no disc in the drive, and Windows itself only sees it as a 40x CD-ROM (correct speed per the specs in the manual) in Device Manager. It works perfectly well for reading CDs of all types that I've tried (admittedly I haven't tried anything exotic like CDi or Super Video CD, but data CDs are correctly read). I don't have any reason to believe anything is defective.
Now, if that's just a limitation/quirk of this setup, I'm fine with that. But if there's some silly thing I forgot to do to make DVD-ROM work, I'd like to know. 😊 I know I've had DVD-ROM working with other drives over the years under 9x, but I honestly do not remember if it requires some sort of specialized driver/feature to be installed (similar to how USB flash drives require a mass storage driver or their own individual drivers). I do have the Creative drivers for the 12x drive installed, and like I said it plays DVD Video like its supposed to, it'd just be nice to be able to play ROM discs too. I doubt there's any games from this era that rely on that (none that I have and can think of do, so I'm OK with CD only), but I have some backups and whatnot on DVD that it'd be nice to be able to directly use (and worst case I can just keep doing what I've been doing: transfer them to USB flash drive on another machine with a DVD drive and plug that into the Win98 box and get it that way).
