Drive lockup - Fixed by installing new firmware in the Drive

[dclark]

Originally Posted by dpreeves

I've just upgraded to 3.310 and am having importing problems. Hoster recognizes my cd drive (external Plextor 48/24/48U) but after selecting the brand, disc number and book ID, then "import selected tracks" the cd drive starts running, and hourglass appears indicating it seems to be working, but that's where it remains, the tracks never appear to select for importing. I have gone to "Add Track" on the Hoster main screen and encounter the same thing when trying to import a track from the external drive.I am using the same setup I have imported over 400 cdg's with before upgrading. Thanks

How clean is the disc? If it is very scratched and/or damaged in some way, it may take a long time to get data from it. Also, which Brand and DiscID have you selected. I can't imagine that this is related to these two fields, but it's worth considering,

To check if your autorun has been disabled go to this registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom\AutoRun

This is either "1" for enabled or "0" for disabled. Hoster's installation program should set this to "0" to disable autorun, as this feature has played havoc with CD Track import for years.

[admin]

Originally Posted by dclark

How clean is the disc? If it is very scratched and/or damaged in some way, it may take a long time to get data from it. Also, which Brand and DiscID have you selected. I can't imagine that this is related to these two fields, but it's worth considering,

To check if your autorun has been disabled go to this registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom\AutoRun

This is either "1" for enabled or "0" for disabled. Hoster's installation program should set this to "0" to disable autorun, as this feature has played havoc with CD Track import for years.

We haven't seen your answer yet on whether Autorun is disabled? This WILL slow down your drive recognition and its' becoming ready to import.

Also, scratched or badly manufactured discs will take a LONG time to import. I have talked to users who have SC discs that took 25 MINUTES PER TRACK to import into Hoster. In a case like this, it is best to make a duplicate copy of the disc in Microstudio and import that into Hoster. The duplicate, if you use MTU CDR Media (or other media that works well for CDG formats), will import tracks in fractions of a minute each.

We tested two laptop drives at MTU yesterday with 3.310. The test disc with 12 tracks was a copy made with Microstudio using MTU CDR Media. One drive took a bit over 14 secs/track, and the other a bit over 16 secs/track. That's around 3 minutes 30 seconds to import all 12 songs. I remember when getting all tracks in 15 minutes was excellent. We've come a long way with 3.310!

[dpreeves]

Yes, autorun is disabled, imported discs are in excellent condition. I have switched to using a Plextor PX-716, but disc recognition time is still rather slow, but the import times are musch faster, so really not much of a problem, just wanted to be sure something was not finctioning correctly.