Problems with "Read subchannel from data" with the Plextor 1610A too.

Clonecd said the writer didn't support "read sub...". My DVD-ROM was secondary master and my Plex secondary slave. I reversed it but it didn't work. Then I put the jumper on the "reserved pins", didn't work either. However, I am running W2K Professional and I read something about that giving problems (its ASPI, I believe) too, so I tried it in Win NT 4.0 (SP 5 or 6, I can check it out if you're interested). Didn't seem to work with Plex on slave and without the jumper placed. I placed the jumper and set the Plex on master and FINALLY, it worked. Don't know what was the decisive factor, the Plex being master or the "magic jumper".

However, I don't seem to be able to burn at all now in W2K. I think its ASPI is messed up (it probably already was before I tried the "read sub..."-thing). Anybody know how I can repair the ASPI, or what else is/went wrong ? I think I didn't install anything new. I got Nero and CloneCD installed, both worked a week ago. Now they both give "Couldn't write to Plextor 1610A"-errors.

[Wayniac]

To check your ASPI version, you need a program called aspichk.exe - I think you get it from the Adaptec home page.

Normally the aspi32.exe program will update your ASPI drivers, but sometimes (ie my case), the program will report that your ASPI drivers arn't compatible with Adaptec software or something like that, and will refuse to update the drivers. But there is another program called aspiinst.exe that will by-pass the Adaptec check.

I have the latest ASPI drivers on my system: v4.57.

Email me at [email protected] and I can post the ASPI programs to you if you want.

All the best.