CDex Oddity

[sechs]

So, I've gotten around, again, to reripping my CDs to vorbis. I have come across an odd situtation with CDex.

I have two optical drives, a SCSI Pioneer DVD drive and an ATA Plextor DVD burner. Under CD drives settings, the Plextor drive will not appear unless I choose "Use Native NT SCSI Library." The drive seems to appear approptiately in other ASPI applications.

If I choose this option, while ripping with either of the drives, music files that I play back from any of my SCSI harddrives drives will get crackly, or intermittent snaps and pops. I can play the same files whilst not ripping, and there are no issues. The rip is fine.

Any ideas?

 

[blakerwry]

you might want to install the forceASPI drivers from when adaptec tried to sell their ASPI layer software... I think the ASPI version in them is only 4.6, but it has worked great for me in 2k and XP.

 

[sechs]

I have ASPI 4.7 installed, the last version from Adaptec. But that doesn't seem to be the issue.

 

[Mercutio]

Try a different ASPI library? Like Ahead's, maybe?

 

[blakerwry]

I'd still suggest forceASPI, IIRC it installs the ASPI layer for both NT and win9x machines. This is important for some applications to work correctly.

Any reason to use CDex over something like EAC?

 

[sechs]

Why wouldn't this device appear in ASPI?

Better yet, why is it all wonky when I switch to SPTI (which is really my preference)?

CDex tags my files, rips to vorbis in one step, and is easy to use. I haven't been presented with any reason to use something else.

 

[sechs]

Problem solved:

The drive was in PIO mode.

 

[sechs]

PS: Damn Microsoft for forcing me to hack the registry to stop Windows from pushing the drive back into PIO mode everytime I rip a scratched CD!