Microsoft KB Archive/131409

BASEBALL 1994: Testing CD-ROM Drive for File Access

PSS ID Number: Q131409 Article last modified on 03-08-1996

1995

WINDOWS

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= SUMMARY =

Because of physical read limitations of some CD-ROM drives, you may not be able to access some files and directories on the Complete Baseball 1994 CD- ROM. This article lists some of those files and directories and explains how to test your CD-ROM drive.

= MORE INFORMATION =

The CD-ROM drive may have difficulty reading the final three directories, listed below, from the Complete Baseball CD-ROM:

FILES LOCATION ON DISK —– —————-

ZZMMCAT 589-590 MB ZZMMCAT 587-589 MB VIDEO 537-585 MB

To test for specific drive-capacity limitations, try to access the files listed below:

FILES LOCATION ON DISK —– —————-

VIDEO162034A.AVI 562 MB VIDEO161525A.AVI 541 MB BAGGAGE.M11 536 MB

The Complete Baseball 1994 CD-ROM contains 590 MB of data. The final file on the CD-ROM is ZZMMCAT.DIB.

NOTE: The file ZIMAGES.M11 is very large (434 MB) and should be copied to the NUL device to verify the CD-ROM drive can read the file.

Testing Your CD-ROM Drive
To ensure the integrity of your files that you have copied from your CD-ROM drive to your hard disk drive, compare the files using the MS-DOS File Compare program (FC.EXE). This test can be used to determine if the CD-ROM subsystem is functioning properly at the device driver or hardware level(s).

The FC.EXE utility is a useful method for testing problems related to general protection (GP) faults or other critical errors (such as read errors or out of memory messages) that may occur while running a CD- ROM application with Windows.

Try to copy one of the following files to your hard disk drive. For more information about how to perform this task in Windows, see your Windows printed documentation or online Help.

FILES LOCATION ON DISC —– —————-

VIDEO162034A.AVI 562 MB VIDEO161525A.AVI 541 MB BAGGAGE.M11 536 MB

If the following error message appears:

CDR101: Not Ready

the CD player cannot read the disk at the specified location.

If the file copies, test the file’s integrity by using FC.EXE with the /B (binary) switch. For example, if your CD-ROM drive is drive D, and your hard disk drive is drive C, type the following command to compare the NGPOPD.DIB file on your CD with the NGPOPD.DIB file on your hard disk drive:

fc /b  d:\zzmmcat\dibs2\ngpopd.dib c:\ngpopd.dib Type the following to copy the file zimages.m11 to the NULL device:

copy x:\baggage\zimages.m11 nul If you receive errors, the CD-ROM drive is having problems reading the CD-ROM at that location.

KBCategory: kbsetup kbenv kbmm kbhw kbtshoot kbprb KBSubcategory: multi media multimedia multi-media

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