Anyone With Cd/dvd/r/rw Problems!!!

I'm seeing a lot of people with removable drive functionality problems on this forum.  If you are having any problems, this following this thread may help you.
This is not limited to, but is target SPECIFIC applies to the below list:
If you have:
CD-ROM
DVD-ROM
CD-R/RW
DVD-R/RW
DVD+R/RW
Removable USB/IEEE storage (Card readers, external USB/IEEE drives)
It may also pertain to hard drives ON any connector S-ATA or ATAPI IDE
And are having problems with:
Device Recognition
Slow Read Speeds
Drive Read/Write data errors/corruption
Bad CD/DVD burns
Crashes that are directly resulting from the removable device.
Here's what will probably (almost 100% certain) fix your woes.
1.  UPDATE YOUR ASPI LAYER.  This affects hard drives as well.  If the layer is not up to date, incomplete or damaged in ANY way, this will fix several problems that ARE NOT ADDRESSED IN ANY WINDOWS update or CHIPSET/DRIVERS updates!!!
2.  UDATE YOUR FIRMWARE ON YOUR REMOVABLE DEVICE.  This is VERY important with older removable devices as they may be confused by how newer chipsets handle 32-Bit/ENHANCED IDE/BUSMASTER capabilities.
3.  DISABLE BUSMASTER/32-BIT IDE MODE.  Many older and even new drives have problems with IDE BUSTMASTERING so disabling this can fix MANY problems with various removable drives.  Some drives don't like running in DUAL FIFO mode which is a problem if you have BUS MASTERING on which uses DUAL FIFO buffers instead of SINGLE FIFO buffers.
4.  DISABLE IMAPI CD-BURNING IN ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS/SERVICES.  IF you don't use the built in Windows XP CD-Burning function, disable it.  It has several KNOWN issues with Hotburn, Nero, Adaptec EZ CD Creator and more!!!!  It also makes those burning programs LOAD faster, and RUN more stably!
Here is the BEST SITE IN THE WORLD for finding new stuff for your removable drive.   You can FIND firmware for ANY removable device.  Some firmwares have been updated for additional functionality that did not come on the drive originally such as higher ripping/reading speeds (all drives), and extra burning functions options (R/RW drives only).  I believe they have all the ASPI stuff you need too if you want to upgrade your ASPI layer.
THE FIRMWARE PAGE
http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php
Best of Luck!!!
Kevin
I love the people here!!!  That's why (despite owning an Asus board) I come back again and again.

since day-1  IMAPI is set to manual.  But I can look in task manager and see it activate itself MANY times when I'm not even burning a CD.  It's just better to DISABLE it if you don't use it.  Besides Nero is WAY better.  I couldn't imagine burning multicompilation SVCD's and DVD's using IMAPI.  It's a drag and drop for novice users or people who don't want the hassle of installing 3rd party software.  But at some point most people want to burn something that the IMAPI service won't do.
Lame software!!!  Like Adaptecs DirectCD junk...  They have links the ASPI layer there on The Firmare Page.  But you can also get it from Adaptec's site.  It's just an installer.
I've found as others though that the one on Adaptec's site is not as good as the ones on TFP site when it comes to burning discs.
ASPI is an old throwback to the SCSI days.  However it is still used today.  "People say I don't need ASPI cause I have all IDE drives"
THIS IS DEAD WRONG....
ASPI is a translation layer that allows ATAPI devices to correctly interact and correspond with the CD drives (with Promise, Highpoint, etc.).  Without ASPI many older generation CD drives won't even work!  In addition since Windows detects all RAID and ATA PCI cards (onboard too) as a SCSI device the ASPI layer corrects any errors that may be happening regarding data transfers across the IDE bus.

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