Hoster/MTU USB Drive Speed
 

I am having a strange occurrence with my MTU USB reader/writer and Hoster. I have found that 44X speed works great for reading my CDG disk without any hiccups in the graphics/music. However, when I first start importing (when I first run Hoster for the day) the CDG the MTU reader is defaulting to a slow speed – 1X or 8X range. I have 44X chosen in the import section and I also have the drive marked and saved as 44 X in the drive setup section in the main screen of Hoster. While it is importing in this slow mode (when I first start up) I can open Internet Explorer and go online and then the MTU reader/writer will go to the 44X speed and will remain there until the computer is restarted the next day – even after shutting down IE. I don’t see how opening IE would have any affect to the speed that the drive is reading at. In Microstudio the drive always runs fast without any problem from the get-go. Any thoughts or suggestions?
BTW I have two hard drives and I run Apps from my C drive and save files (songs in the case of Hoster) to my D drive.

Here is my some system info:
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professionalchemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:smarttags" /><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urnhttp://forum.mtu.com/ /><st1:date Month=8/28/2003</st1:date><o:p></o:p>
SMBIOS Version 2.3<o:p></o:p>
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS<o:p></o:p>
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32<o:p></o:p>
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1<o:p></o:p>
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"<o:p></o:p>
Total Physical Memory 1,024.00 MB<o:p></o:p>
Available Physical Memory 570.45 MB<o:p></o:p>
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB<o:p></o:p>
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB<o:p></o:p>

In Hoster go to Tools, CD/DVD Drives Defaults and select the MTU USB drive as your default drive. You can also set the speed.

I Hope This Helps

Jim

I concur with Jim. :c

Please post back here if this solves your problem or not. If not... it "sounds like" a bug we'll have to tackle.

Kenny if you have another drive listed (whether it works for CDG or not) try changing to that drive as default, close Hoster. reopen it and reset the drive back to the good drive as default with the speed set (I always leave mine at max, letting the computer decide with no problem). This might get it to work.

Admin, is the drive speed included in registry information? If so then deleting the registry entries for Hoster and then opening Hoster should reset the drive speed.

Dale,

I will try this tomorrow and report back. Thanks for you help.

Kenny

Dale,

I tried what you suggested. After adding the drive back and selecting Max, it still starts out slow until I open Internet Explorer, then it takes off.

Kenny

Sounds like something else has control over that drive. Internet Explorer has nothing to do with the CD drive so why would it speed up after you open it?The only thing I can think of is delete the program folder settings in the registry. This will reset everything back to default, so you will have to set everything back to where you want them, including the default drive.

Kenny,

Are you still experiencing this problem? Thanks!

I switched computers and I'm running everything from a lap top now. I no longer have that problem with the lap top, but before I switched, yes I still had that problem.

Thanks!
Kenny