PS2 discs not readable in CD drive

[rosst]

I may be being stupid here, but I just put a modchip in my PS2 and bought a Freecom Classic CDRW. When I put a PS2 game disc in the CD drive on my PC to copy, the computer cannot read the disc. I tried on another PC and all I get is 'please insert a disc in drive d:'. I've tried two different PS2 discs. What am I doing wrong?!?

At the moment I cant even copy the contents of the PS2 disc to my hard drive to patch!!

Thanks for any help you can offer!!

[Charlie]

rosst (22-10-2001 10:58):
I may be being stupid here, but I just put a modchip in my PS2 and bought a Freecom Classic CDRW. When I put a PS2 game disc in the CD drive on my PC to copy, the computer cannot read the disc. I tried on another PC and all I get is 'please insert a disc in drive d:'. I've tried two different PS2 discs. What am I doing wrong?!?

At the moment I cant even copy the contents of the PS2 disc to my hard drive to patch!!

Thanks for any help you can offer!!
First, the dumb one. I presume it wasn't a DVD game you put into the CD Drive! Or do you have the Classic CDRW/DVD combo in which case it's possibly a DVD game and you're using Windows 98 which doesn't like files > 2GB (thanks SIM).

Second, is it Windows Explorer that's refusing to see the CD? Or if not what is it? CDRWin?

Third, if it's CDRWin, the equally common question - have you got the ASPI layer installed? If it's supplied Roxio software, this requires ASPI (although I'd expect it to have been installed at the same time).

Perhaps also you could check under Device Manager as to what the underlying CD RW is on the Freecom Classic? For example my Freecom DVD-ROM is a Toshiba C1502 - useful to know. It is the underlying device that has to be compatible withg CDRWin and CloneCD. I would expect all CD-RWs to be seen by Windows Explorer. I also believe that Freecom supply underlying YAMAHA devices.

Has any of the above helped?

[rosst]

Thanks for your quick response.

OK, I was being stupid on the first one. The disc is a DVD Rom (Army Men: Sarges Heroes 2). I'l have to try putting it in my DVD drive when I get home and copying the files from there.

The other problem I have is that neither CDRWin or FireBurner recognise my CDRW. I guess this is just a case of the drive not being supported which would mean I've wasted my money!!

I tried looking at the drive in the device manager and it was listed simply as 'IDE-CD R/RW 8x4x32x' which could be a problem seeing as my drive is connected via USB. Still no clues to the underlying drive type though.

I've tried downloading an ASPI for All update from daemon-tools and using that, but CDRWin still does not recognise the drive.

Do I have any options if when the drive is installed correctly with the correct driver, CDRWin still does not recognise it???

[Charlie]

CDRWin doesn't recognise my Freecom device (USB) so I assume you have the same problem. This will be down to ASPI not being USB aware. CloneCD does recognise the Freecom device (in my case a reader only) and it doesn't use ASPI.

Download the trial version of CloneCD and see if it recognises your device. If it's the CD-RW-4420, it appears to be supported.