3dstuio cd rom
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Joseph:
I have a Toshiba 3401 CD-ROM drive also & use it w/ 3DS & ANI Pro with no
problem. It's not clear to me what you mean when you say…
*<<WHEN I PLAY MY CD AND TRY TO OPERATE 3DS MY CD SHUTS DOWN>>*
Does the drive actually stop working, or do you mean that you cannot
access files on the CD? Are you trying to access the "World Tool
Kit" while using 3DS, or another CD? Did you add the directories you
wish to access on the CD to your 3DS.set file? Otherwise, they
aren't recognized and you won't be able to import them. I hope this
helps.
I MEANT WHEN I PLAY MY MUSIC CD AND TRY TO RUN 3DS THE CD STOPS PLAYING BUT
OTHER WISE I CAN ACSSES FILES FROM THE CD ROM. I CAN PLAY MUSIC AND WORK ON
ACADR12 BUT NOT 3DS2.
Are you running ACAD under Windows?
3DS is quite processor & memory intensive (much more so than ACAD), so I don't
think it's in your best interest to even attempt to do that.
-scott
Yeah, it sucks, doesn't it? Well, when you start 3DS (and at various other
times) 3DS goes out and "looks" for each drive on your system — for instance,
if you have a removeable cartidge drive, like a Bernoulli, and there's no
cartridge in it when you start up 3DS, that drive won't be recognized, even if
you later mount a cartridge. So, 3DS is essentially doing a reset on your CD
that cancels out the music program's play instruction. Even shelling out to
re-start it won't work, as 3DS will just re-initialize the thing again.
AutoCAD uses a different method of finding valid drive names, so the music
plays on.
Dave
David,
>> So, 3DS is essentially doing a reset on your CD that cancels out the music
program's play instruction.
Ain't necessarily so. I start up my CD before 3DS, and can listen away while
working. Must be something specific to your machines or 3DS.SET files, like
always looking for the CD ROM in Map Paths, etc. It *doesn't* show up in my 3DS
file menus, though, if I've started 3DS while th CD ROM is playing music. If
there isn't a music CD in it at startup, then it shows as an additional drive.
I imagine that there are many different types of CD ROMS and drivers; some
probably work like this and some probably don't.
John
Yeah, I think you're right.
If you want to play music, remove any references to your CD Rom drive
from the 3DS.SET file. If you tell it you have a MAP path on that drive,
you'll abort the playback when it reads the CD, or even just checks it.
Hmmmm. I'm 99.9% sure that when I first discovered this, I WASN'T setting any
map paths to the CD, but you could be right that it's driver-specific. I've a
Texel internal (3045 or whatever) on an Adaptec 154x SCSI card. At the time, I
just figured that was how 3DS operated, and stuck a tape in the boom-box!
Shucks — I WAS resigned to not using the CD, but now, I'll have to start a
quest to get this to work!<g>
Dave
Are you running ACAD under Windows?
3DS is quite processor & memory intensive, so I don't think it's in your best
interest to even attempt to play music on your CD-ROM drive while running
3DS…it will just slow you down!
-scott