Audio CD Problem

[PastranA]

Heya all,

Recentley i have discovered this little problem that i have with my CD drive. What happens is that when i go to use a cd ripping program the program finds no files on the cd drive and therefore i cant rip the songs that i want to into mp3. i went into my computer and went to the properties of the D:\ and it says 0 mb on the disk, like this:



then i go into the actual folder of the CD and it shows all the files but they all show as being 1 kb each. the wierd thing is that the computer still plays the songs off the disk not a problem through the player that i use.
Usually this would not bother me because i can still listen to CD's, its that i can't rip the songs into mp3's that is annoying me.

The brand of the CD Drive is LG 52x24x52
The number of it/serial number what ever it is, is:
HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8520B

And if its necessary my computer is:
AMD Athlon XP1800+
512mb DDR PC2700 RAM
64mb GeForce 4 MX440
80 gig Seagate HDD

Hopefully i have provided you guys with enough information

Thanks

PastranA

[JohnE.]

What program are you using to rip the songs?

Those files you see on a CD when you open it in Explorer (the .cda files) are just little data files telling Windows or your CD player about the sample rate, the bit rate, length, CD-Text (if any), etc. The actual raw PCM audio files are super-hidden. There's an old hacked cdfs.sys file around somewhere that will let you access them directly but it's terribly buggy and probably doesn't work on Win2K/XP.

This looks like it could possibly be an ASPI issue.

[PastranA]

Hmm the Program that i am using is just called mp3 converter or something, but i know it works becuase i used to use it with my old CD drive. i have also tried other ripping programs and they have just done the same thing.

And what is a ASPI issue and how can i fix that or is there nothing that i can do?

[PastranA]

And btw in that screen shot where it shows 0mb that shouldnt be there right?

[muno]

Well it seems to be detecting the cd as wrong type.. the fs should be cdfs.

Try and install aspi drivers from adaptec.
http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/sup...dkey=ASPI-4.70
-M

[PastranA]

Ta muno i will give that a try

[PastranA]

Well i have installed those drivers, and the drive type has changed from RAW to CDFS
but i am still getting the same problem
i am pretty sure that i have put the drivers in properley i did what the instructions said
any other ideas?

[muno]

Try some other ripping software, eg. easy cd extractor. Remember to reboot after installs and stuff.
-M

[PastranA]

No one else has any ideas why this would be happening?

[PastranA]

Surely someone has seen this sort of problem elsewhere? no one has any ideas?