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- Title Windows 95 and GreenBook CDi Titles
- Catalog# W9500010
- History created 8/2/95 by tsilva
- modified 8/30/95 by saiena
- modified 11/21/95 by saiena
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- We have found that raw reads of non-ISO 9660 CDs fail under CDFS
- (Windows 95's alternative to MSCDEX). This situation makes it
- impossible to play CD-i Digital Video Movie (GreenBook) titles,
- and playback of Video CD (WhiteBook) titles can be severely slowed.
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- It is possible to work around this situation by reconfiguring your PC
- to use MSCDEX instead of CDFS, but there are some considerations:
- - MSCDEX is slower than CDFS;
- - because the CD-ROM driver must be loaded in REAL mode, system
- performance is slightly slowed;
- - some CD-ROM drivers/drives may not work with GreenBook CD-i titles
- even after the reconfiguration; replacement of the CD-ROM driver/drive
- may be necessary to enable playback of GreenBook titles;
- - There may be other ill effects of which we are currently unaware.
-
- * DISCLAIMER:
- * Because of these considerations, we strongly recommend that you
- * back-up your PC's file system prior to performing the reconfiguration.
- *
- * The procedure described in this file is not guaranteed to enable
- * GreenBook and WhiteBook CD playback on all PCs.
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- To enable reading of GreenBook CDi titles from within Windows 95, complete
- the following steps (you must have a properly functioning CD in
- your PC before completing these steps):
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- - Type the CONFIG.SYS file on the root of your Windows 95 boot drive,
- and note the line that loads your PC's CD-ROM driver; e.g., the
- following command types the config.sys file:
- type c:\config.sys
- And the following line loads the CD-ROM driver:
- DEVICE=C:\UTILS\SCSI\ASPICD.SYS /D:ASPICD0
- - Edit the AUTOEXEC.BAT file on the root of your Windows 95 boot drive,
- and add a line that loads the MSCDEX program, e.g.:
- <PATH>MSCDEX.EXE /D:<DRIVER>
- Where <PATH> is the path to the MSCDEX program,
- and <DRIVER> is the name of the driver specified in your PC's
- CONFIG.SYS file, e.g.:
- C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:ASPICD0
- - Edit the IOS.INI in your PC's Windows 95 directory, and find
- the line that specifies your PC's CD-ROM driver, e.g.:
- aspicd.sys ; adaptec PM driver exists
- If this line appears in the [SafeList] section of the file, move it from
- the [SafeList] section to the [CDUnsafe] section; e.g.: after you move
- the line, your IOS.INI file should have lines that look like this:
- [CDUnsafe]
- aspicd.sys ; adaptec PM driver exists
- - Reboot your PC.
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- At this point, if problems persist, try diabling 32-bit disk access:
- - Run the SYSTEM control panel
- - Go to the PERFORMANCE panel
- - Click the "File System" button
- - Go to the "Troubleshooting" panel
- - Enable the option: "Disable all 32-bit Protect Mode Disk Drivers"
- - Reboot your PC