First I would suggest that you 'disconnect ( either pull the interface cable, or the power cable) from one drive, leaving the one for which you installed the software last and see if that drive will then work ( remember to set any master/slave /only jumpers as appropriate) .
Packet writing treats the disc in the CD drive as if it were a hard drive -Windows Explorer should some space shown on the drive as well as an indication of the space used If the disc is shown as having 0 space, then the system is probably not seeing it as a packet mode disk, but like a bought-in CD-ROM That's why I asked about the use in various modes. Packet writing allows the disc to be written to as if it was a hard drive partition - but you need to format discs first - in the same way as you format hard drive partitions - BUT - some of the software will do that format in background - which is why the system may make you wait for up to 30 minutes when you try to eject the disc. That software may also format the disc as the data is written to it - instead of formatting the disc with 'empty' sectors it may format the disc, including the required data as it goes, which is faster, but it will still need to complete the format process Re re-installing the Ulead software, that may work, and then again, it may not - see the start of this response (I found that software supplied with some drives I bought was specialised to only work with that single drive in the system) Also - if you are going to use Nero, then you should download and install the latest fixed version of Nero that your OEM licence will allow you to use. JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "McPeak, Harry D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 8:22 PM Subject: Re: HARD?: "denied access" msg on R/W CD drives Same OS (XP, SP-2 w/ auto-update). On "box" I repeatedly updated the same files on this very same CD. I'm not at that machine how so can't be sure, but I wouldn't think the files have become read-only. I'll check though. I'll check out the packet writing issue; how do I tell if it is present and available? I'm unclear from a couple of the responses to my email. Do I need packet-writing or not, and if so why? How do I turn it on or off, or whatever? I have OEM software that came with both drives (Ulead w/ the Pioneer and Nero w/ the NEC). Neither seems to have a driver option but just the opportunity to install the OEM version of the software. Assuming it is as simple as reinstalling one or both of these programs, it is likely that if I install Ulead, for example, that it should work on both drives and packet writing will be enabled for both? I am totally unfamiliar with this concept so I apoligize if my questions don't make sense. -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Button Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 1:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: HARD?: "denied access" msg on R/W CD drives Also - I would suggest that, unless there is a need to use packet mode for writing to CD's, that you change over to using non- packet mode, and use DVD's RW media if you want to re-use the platters, but DVD' are far more robust, both the scratch resistance of the reflective surface, and protection of the dye media and the DVD format does not have the naming limitations of CD's JimB -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
