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[This followup was posted to comp.publish.cdrom.hardware and a copy was 
sent to the cited author.]

In article <7p3o98$e1g$1@news.bezeqint.net>, tamiri@isdn.net.il says...
> Hello,
> My name is Tamir Schaechner. I live in Israel and I had bought a CD-RW of
> Phiplips (CDD 3610).
> I installed the Easy CD Creator and I installerd the update for 3.5c and I
> checked my ASAPI version (1017, 4.60).
> 1. When I Do the following:
>     Easy Cd Creator ->Tools ->System Tests -> Recorder -> Do Test
>     The computer get stuck and nothing happens.
>     I do CTRL+ALT+DEL and after 20 seconds or so I get the Close Program
> window and there I see
>     that Explorer is not responding. After closing it and do CTRL+ALT+DEL
> again I get Close Program
>     window and there I see that Easy Cd is not responding.
> 2. When I put a new empty Cd in the CD-RW drive I see in My Computer that it
> is an Audio Cd. Why?
> 
> 3. When I drag a folder to be copied onto the CD-R, using the Easy CD
> Creator, the picture of the folder gets frozen on the lower part of the
> screen and the computer gets stuck.
> 
> Could you please advice me ?
> 
> p.s. -
> I have Pentium 133, 64 RAM, 2 GB free Hard Disk, win95.
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> 
> Tamir Schaechner
> 
> 
> 
This is exactly the same problem that I get, only with completely 
different hardware - mine is a Yamaha CRW4416S CDRW drive with a Creative 
36x IDE CDROM drive. Operating system is Windows 98-SE. Software is the 
same.

After much work, I have narrowed the problem down to the CDROM drive, 
which is not listed in 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Adaptec\Easy CD Creator\CDReader
as a recognised drive type. ECDC then appears to substitute what it 
thinks the drive is - in my case something entirely different and 
incompatible.

Interestingly, the 'upgrade' to 3.5c actually removed my Yamaha drive 
from the registry, so it might be a good idea to uninstall the software 
and reinstall the version that came with your drive - check the following 
registry key to see if the Philips unit gets a mention:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Adaptec\Easy CD Creator\Devices
It should be there!

Unless someone comes up with a means of adding unrecognised drive 
parameters to this key - in which case I will pass on the information to 
you - the answer would seem to be that ECDC is incompatible with some 
hardware.

You could change the CDROM drive to an 'approved' type. You could wait 
for the next version of ECDC in the forlorn hope that Adaptec will 
include a method of configuring unrecognised CDROM drives, or you could 
try some different software.

CDRWIN from Golden Hawk Technology works fine for me.

Audiograbber will reveal how good your CDROM drive is at reading audio 
data. This might also show that your CDROM drive is actually incapable of 
digital audio extraction, but that's another issue.

If someone comes up with a solution privately. that will get ECDC 
working, I would appreciate an email. This is, after all, potentially 
very nice software to use.
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