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Windows 95 + ASPI!

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First post, by TheStrayChow

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Hi guys,

Maybe someone can shed some light?

I have a 1997, AMD K5 based PC runnig on what looks just like a "Amptron pm-8400" with 32mb ram and a 525MB IDE harddisk, running Windows 95(A?) I've got a SB16 card in there, 3.5",5.25", and inheirted some 3.5" TAPE Drive

...The PC also has now has a IDE/PATA CD-RW drive. (Hitachi-LG GCE-8483B IDE CD-ROM Drive) --> (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235827669890)

HOWEVER, I'm having all sorts of issues getting this drive to write a CD. It will however read CD's....

- CDRW Drive is on the 2nd IDE channel and is set to master.
- This PC did used to have a CDROM drive intalled (that died) so i've like for like swapped it out, not editted any of the old config files and turned it on and it works... so result.
- I'm currently using CDRWIN 3 (an old version, which even comes with it's own ASPI, lets you use the windows ASPI and has some 3rd option (FROGASPI?) all 3 of which fail to see the drive)
- I've run FORCEASPI 1.7, which installed the ASPI 4.60 drivers it comes bundled with and when i run the ASPI checker, it tell me the "ASPI layer is correct, but no host adapter can be found!"

Is there anything else i can do?

Reply 1 of 3, by myne

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Test it in another machine?
No point chasing software demons only to find out later that the write laser is dead

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Reply 2 of 3, by TheStrayChow

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Yeah, it had crossed my mind.... But i thought the ASPI layer would still show as working and the adaptor still show as found as the software is likely unaware of the laser hardware state, i'd have maybe expected it to look fine in aspicheck.exe and throw an error when trying to write if that were the case? but i have no experience of a duff laser....

Reply 3 of 3, by myne

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Alternative : try 2k/xp on a spare hdd

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