Job
Sun Dec 16 12:26:21 PST 2007
>Your problem would appear to be communicating with
>your optical drive, details of which such as make and model
I don't think
>you have mentioned.
You are correct that the "ripping programs" I listed in my
original post won't communicate with my drives. However, my
"audio player" programs and Easy CD Creator can communicate
with the drives. I don't understand this so I have done a
System Restore to take me back to before I started
installing "rippers" and before I started copying/pasting
WNASPI.DLLs. Who needs a "ripper" anyway <bg>.
Yes I did neglect to include the type of drives. They are
MITSUMI CR-48X5TE and
SAMSUNG SC-148C.
>I'm guessing something you have installed has made a
registry change that is >perhaps causing the problem. As to
what that change might be, I am unable to help.
Hee hee, now Mike I know you're mighty good but I don't
expect you to perform the impossible from across the pond.
But wait, if I mailed my tower to you then I'll bet you
could ........ nah, bad idea.
Thanks again for helping
"Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message
news:%23Kbmqp9PIHA.1212@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Looks like Windows ME and "Ripping" programs are just not
> compatible, at least on my system.
On _your_ system maybe but the problem isn't intrinsic to
Win Me. In fact
you are probably one of few having such problems in the
seven plus years
since Win Me was released. There are lots of availalble
applications
including even Windows own Windows Media Player - not that I
would
recommend using WMP. Your problem would appear to be
communicating with
your optical drive, details of which such as make and model
I don't think
you have mentioned.
> When you said that was what you did to get EAC to work
> correctly was that on your ME machine or your XP machine?
I've used EAC without problem on PCs running Win 98SE, Win
Me and XP.
> P.S. I downloaded Nero Ver 6 (34 M) instead of Ver 7 (237
> M)
I have never needed to use an additional ASPI layer my Win
Me PC - I
simply mentioned this as a possible fix for when EAC cannot
see the
optical drives. It was on a PC running XP where EAC having
worked without
problem for a number of years that suddenly couldn't see the
drives where
I solved the problem by placing a copy of WNASPI32.DLL from
Nero in the
EAC program folder. Ahead/Nero's file WNASPI32.DLL isn't
tied to a
specific version of Nero. The version I am using is
2.0.1.74 dated
October 2004. EAC on other machines running XP has never
needed the
addition of this file nor have my PCs running Win Me (only
one of which I
still have).
As a check In the last few minutes I have installed and run
EAC with no
problems on a clean install of Win Me. I didn't need to
use/install
Adaptec's aspi layer not did I have to use a copy of
WNASPI32.DLL from
Nero. It just worked, As a test I have installed and used
without
problem a number of different versions of EAC ranging from
v0.85b from
Sept 1999 to the most recent v0.99pb3 released August 2007.
Your problem doesn't lie with EAC but elsewhere, I'm
guessing something
you have installed has made a registry change that is
perhaps causing the
problem. As to what that change might be, I am unable to
help.
--
Mike Maltby
mike.maltby@gmail.com
Job <iam@best.slow> wrote:
> Hello again Mike.
>
> I downloaded Nero Ver. 6 Package 1 from
>
http://www.nero.com/eng/downloads-nero6-update.php and
> copied its WNASPI32.DLL into the EAC folder. Still when I
> attempt to open EAC I get the error message "The ASPI
> interface could not be initialized correctly! (Error E8h)
> (No host adapters found)
>
> Looks like Windows ME and "Ripping" programs are just not
> compatible, at least on my system.
>
> When you said that was what you did to get EAC to work
> correctly was that on your ME machine or your XP machine?
>
> P.S. I downloaded Nero Ver 6 (34 M) instead of Ver 7 (237
> M)
>
>
>
> "Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message
> news:ezzUIK3PIHA.4272@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Lack of the ASPI layer can cause problems when accessing
> optical media.
> This is an interface designed by Adaptec and now rather
> dated and no
> longer really supported. Win Me contains a rudimentary
aspi
> layer (the
> two files apix.vxd and wnaspi32.dll) and it is, I think,
> missing from XP.
> In the past the full/proper ASPI layer could only be
> installed (free) if
> you had an item of Adaptec hardware on the system but I
> think this is no
> longer the case - it can be downloaded from
>
http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/speed/software_pc/aspi/aspi_v470_exe.htm.
> The more usual method today of creating an aspi layer is
for
> those running
> Nero to use Nero's ASPI layer (WNASPI32.DLL) and to copy
> this file to the
> folder containing the program that requires the layer such
> as Exact Audio
> Copy. That is what I have done here to get EAC working
> correctly.
>
> Ah! I see that the Adaptec site includes the following
> note:
> Notes: At this time Adaptec is allowing the download of
> this file
> without regard to ownership of retail Adaptec Products.
>
>> I've been trying to find a way/software to rip some CDs.
>> The only thing I've accomplished so far is to get myself
>> wrapped around the axle so tightly that a rabid feeling
>> started coming over me. So.....I unclenched my teeth,
wiped
>> the foam from my mouth and decided to come dip into this
>> fountain of knowledge. And yes, I'm probably one of the
>> last five people in the universe that is still using
Windows
>> ME (and proud of it podner). Enough frivolity, on to the
>> serious stuff.
>>
>> I have downloaded various programs that advertise they
will
>> rip CDs and will work with Windows ME. The programs are:
>> CDex
>> Express Rip
>> WinAmp
>> dBpoweramp Music Converter
>> Exact Audio Copy
>>
>> All of them except Exact Audio Copy did not show/list my
>> CD-RW drive nor
>> my CD-R drive.
>>
>> Exact Audio Copy although installed would not even open.
It
>> just gave error message
>> "The ASPI interface could not be initialized correctly!
>> (Error E8h) (No host adapters found)"
>>
>> I started Googling and did not find anything specifically
>> talking about ME yet there are quite a number of problems
>> with "Rippers" failing to detect drives. A lot of
proposed
>> fixes talked about ASPI layers (yeah, like I understood
that
>> <bg>) and that WNASPI32.DLL needed to be installed or
>> updated. Most of the problems being reported were by
folks
>> running XP (not unexpected as most of the world is on
XP).
>>
>> My WNASPI32.DLL in Windows\System folder was Version
4.71.1
>> so I downloaded and installed Version 4.71.2 but that
didn't
>> help.
>>
>> Now I'm done with my whimpering. Are any of you who use
ME
>> doing any "ripping"?
>> What 'Ripper" do you use? After reading my incoherent
>> whining, any scientific guesses as to how my problems can
be
>> corrected so I can become a rip-roarin' buckaroo?
>>
>> Thanks and Merry 9 Days Til Christmas.
>>
>>
>> Job says, "Hmmm......I gain more weight and I won't need
>> advice about ripping pants!"