Please HELP ASUS 50x CDROM will not read DAT video files.

[subman]

I have a ASUS 50x CDROM atttached as a primary slave to a HDD and a Plextor 16x writer as the Secondary Master. I also have a Yamaha 8424 SCSI writer and a Pioneer 6x SCSI DVDROM which are not connected to the computer. My problem is that I cannot play VCD disks which have the files in DAT format via the ASUS CDROM. The CDROM sees the directories and files but various software VCD players including MS Media Player 7 say that the DAT files are corrupted when I try to access them via the ASUS CDROM. I cannot even copy DAT files from the ASUS CDROM. I am however able to play these files as well copy them using any of the other 3 CD/DVD drives. Strangely I have no problem reading/copying DATA, AVI, VOB or MP3 files from the ASUS CDROM. It will only not handle DAT files for some reason.

This problem occurs in WinME - but when I use another HDD with Win98SE installed than the ASUS CDROM does not give any problems with DAT files. I am certain that a file is corrupted in the WinME setup. Can anyone please advise how I can trace the corrupted file ? I know I can reinstall WinME and the problem will most likely go away but I have some software which I cannot install again so I am reluctant to do a reinstall at this moment.

My system consists of an ASUS P3BF MoBo and a ASUS Geforce DDR display card and I have a SBLive Value card installed.

 

[AndyHui]

Look for CDFS.VXD on your WinME CD and replace the one on your hard drive with that. See if that helps.

 

[subman]

Andy,

Thanks for your reply. I got it to work - but not with what you had suggested.

I had forgotten that some months back I had a problem with my CD burning and someone had suggested that I remove the file scsi1hlp.vxd from the iosubsys directory which I had done and that problem had gone away. Now I find that removing this file will not let the ASUS CDROM drive read DAT files... GOD knows what the connection is between the DAT files and the ASUS drive. All my other drives handled DAT files fine.

Thanks for the reply and I must say that I really found what you have written in the AnandTech FAQs very informative.