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Title: MC9 - Rip CD
Post by: Stairman on September 29, 2003, 12:43:46 pm

I have recently installed MC9 and everything I have tried so far has worked perfectly  :) until I tried to rip a CD - I get the error message "Open drive failed. Parameter is out of range"! :(
Ripping worked perfectly on the old MC that I had.  I have checked all the various settings and I have no idea what this message means. ?
Help - please!

Title: Re: MC9 - Rip CD
Post by: JohnT on September 30, 2003, 05:25:42 am

Could you post your system info here (from the MC help menu)?

Thanks!

Title: Re: MC9 - Rip CD
Post by: Stairman on September 30, 2003, 01:59:35 pm

Thanks for your response, info is as follows:-


Media Center Registered 9.0.180 -- D:\Media Center\
Microsoft Windows Me
AMD Athlon 994 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 277 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.81 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1226 / Shell32.dll: 5.50.4134.100 / wnaspi32.dll: 4.71 (0001) , ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, Copyright © 1989-2002 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: N/A

Ripping /   Drive G:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Drive H:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: No /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
 Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  No burners found.
 Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: No
 Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

Hope this helps.

Title: Re: MC9 - Rip CD
Post by: JohnT on October 01, 2003, 06:37:22 am

This is a known problem with the Adaptec aspi installation program for aspi versions 4.7x. There is a registry key that needs to be created in order for CD drives to be accessed. MC has been modified in the latest 9.1 versions to create this registry key if it's missing. You could either upgrade to 9.1 or just add the registry key on your computer. Here is the key that needs to exist:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\APIX

Then you need to add a string value to that key called "ExcludeMiniports". The string value must be blank ("").

If you go the route of upgrading to 9.1, you need to run MC, reboot your computer, then run MC again and everything should work.

Title: Re: MC9 - Rip CD
Post by: Stairman on October 06, 2003, 09:47:29 am

I tried installing 9.1 first as it seemed the easiest option but it did not cure the problem.  I managed to work out how to change the registry and installed the key all as instructed and now ripping is working!
Thanks for your help.

PS - DSP not working now - see new thread!