CD not usable: Not a CD drive

[Mouloud2k4]

Hi,

I'm getting a "CD not usable: Not a CD drive" error message when trying to boot a game from my physical drives ( File > Insert CD drive).
I have 2 drives which are a DVD-RW and a DVD.

Could my drives not be identified as "CD" drives simply because they're DVD drives ?

I'm running Windows Xp Pro Sp2 and have up to date Aspi drivers installed.

On a side note , SPTI support for CD access would be nice for later releases if one is ever planned.

Thanks for your time and work.

[Joseph]

I've been experiencing the exact same problem, except that I'm running XP Home and my drives are CDR instead of DVD compatible. I also have up to date Aspi drivers.

[Rockmangames]

Nothing wrong with mine. I am running XP Home Edition SP2 with ASPI drivers as well. It runs great!

[Joseph]

Well, can you tell us what kind of drives your using? Did you get any particular type of Aspi files? Any DLLs?

[Neal]

When I put in a CD and select Insert CD Drive, I have to select Drive E which is my first CD drive and then it says, "CD not usable: Failed to set required sector mode". What does that mean and how can I get my CD drive to work? I use XP home with service pack 2. My ASPI drivers work fine because I use many emulators that run CD games like Kega or Gens.

[Svenny]

I have the exact same effect here, "CD not usable, failed to set required sector mode". I'm using XP home with SP1.

Could this effect come from using PAL games? I live in Europe and do not have any NTSC games, only PAL versions.

Thanks for any help!
Svenny

[Neal]

I'm in America and I have many NTSC games. I just tried another game and the same problem. Looks like region is not the issue here.

[pSX Author]

Hi guys,

To be honest I haven't tried running games off a real CD for quite some time so it probably doesn't work too well

For now you can use .cue/.bin images instead. If you have an original CD you can create a .cue/.bin with your favourite CD burning app. Some apps can only create their own formats.. for example Nero only creates .nrgs, but you can convert them to .cue/.bin with something like MagicISO or my favourite cdMage (http://cdmage.orcon.net.nz/frames.html and get the 1.02.1 Beta 5 version.. bottom link).

I will do some experiments with CDs and try to release an updated version soon... I have had problems in the past though with CD drives not being able to read XA sectors properly.

Anyway - thanks for the feedback.

[Mouloud2k4]

Thanks for looking into that matter.
Keep up the great work !

[Mouloud2k4]

Just tried version 1.1 and here's what i'am getting:

"CD not usable: Not a CD drive" when trying to use Aspi driver.

and

"cdrom: prefetch timed out, trying again..." when trying to use IoControl / Autodetect.

So loading games from physical drives still doesn't work for me.

[Driver_TDH]

same problem(

[Rockmangames]

I run pal games on CD drive and it runs fine to me without a problem. It have nothing to do with region issues here.