cd-writer cd16ri and win98 problems

[Romeo Schmid]

I bought an hp cd-writer cd16ri (actually in the box was a cd16n..). I installed it on a NT4 system without problems (replaced the existing cd-rom). On my Win98SE system however, there were a lot of strange behaviour and error messages (like 'driver already installed' when trying to perform a backup, system hangs at shutdown saying 'please wait, while the storage medium is updated', DLA doesn't recognize any media in the cd-writer, shows info of the cd-rom instead, and so on). Configuration: IDE port0: disk one (master), new cd16ri (slave); IDE port1: disk two (master), cd-rom (slave). Has anybody got an idea?

P.S. This thread has been moved from Disk to Optical Jukeboxes & Drives. - Hp Forum Moderator

[Gavin_4]

Hi,

Have you tried putting the Writer & the CD-ROM on the Secondary IDE?

[Romeo Schmid]

Thanks for your answer. Yesterday I installed the writer (I bought two of them) on a second Win98SE system (one disk on IDE port0, writer as master on port1, dvd-rom as slave on port1; DMA disabled). After problems with the main setup program, I installed RecordNow and DLA from their respective folders. RecordNow worked, but DLA didn't. I then installed Direct CD (the version that is included on the installation cd). The hp-writer menu doesn't work, but I can use RecordNow and Direct CD to burn CDs and access them directly (explorer, backup etc.). It seems to me now, that DLA doesn't run correctly on Win98 (on NT4 it worked). I'll try this configuration on the first system later this week, and post the results here. (BTW: The box says cd16ri and the writer is a cd16n, which obviously is not the same thing.)

[Romeo Schmid]

Back again. I returned to the first system (see original question), de-installed DLA, and installed Direct CD, did not change the harware config: now it works. Now, I'm almost sure, it's DLA that doesn't run with Win98.