#Can't find CD-Rom
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Gary, I just received my 3DS R3. It is fantastic!!! I am going thru the
tutorials again and am learning alot.
The materials Editor is fantastic. Alot more to learn but I know the benefits
are worth it. The gamma function is great. The clouds in my renderings don't
seem to have those nasty moire patterns anymore, and those ray traced shadows
w/ overshoot (wow!!!!!).
One question (so far). I edited the 3ds.set file to go to my CD. Sometimes when
loading 3DSTUDIO I get a message:
"Caution: Drive D not present – Using current drive.
Press any key to continue"
Why does this happen only sometimes? I have to press any key about
fourteen times (I assume this is the number of paths in 3ds.set).
It will happen when you have another CD in your CDROM drive. 3D Studio
when going up, will look for those material directories and, as they
aren't there, will give you that warning message.
Gus,
I have ONLY the 3DSR3 CD in my CD Drive.
-Mike
Glad to hear that you got r3, Mike. Groove on, as they say.
– G
PS: Gus' answer re changing the CD explains the error msg.
Gary:
Sorry to disagree (>>PS: Gus' answer re changing the CD explains the error
msg.<<)
but…
Both with r2 (mainly) and r3, I've noticed that sometimes when starting 3DS, it
will decide not to include my CDROM drive in its drive list. If I quit out and
immediately start 3DS again, poof! There it is. There seems to be no rhyme or
reason to it – just that sometimes it sees the drive, and sometimes it don't!
(Yes, the CD is in there in both cases!)
Dave
(PS – My drive is the Texel 3024 w/ DTC SCSI controller)
We've never seen that on any of the systems here, so I can't really comment on
what in your environment is confusing DOS.
– G
Offhand, I'd guess that it is due to some interaction between certain CDROM
driver software and the calls you use to determine the active drives in the
system. Perhaps some CDROM drivers don't report as active drives until they've
been activated by at least one call, including activation such as a "dir f:" or
"f:" or "cd f:\foo" call from the user at the DOS prompt. I'd submit it as a
bug for QA to test. 🙂
John,
I agree. I always log the CD-ROM with DIR G: (that's my drive
assignment) before starting 3D Studio. This has worked with any of my
customers experiencign a problem with 3DS seeing the CD.
Kevin Krell – Computer Support Associates
Adding the -SAVEREGS switch to the device driver line in your config.sys might
solve some of the problems. This seems to be good advice for any SCSI device.
-Brian
THanks, Brain! (oops, I mean Brian!)<g>
Dave
David,
>>If I quit out and immediately start 3DS again, poof! There it is.<<
That is exactly what happens to me. Even though the CD is in the drive I can't
load any geometry or maps. If I reload 3DS, wham! there it is.
-Mike
Interesting. I've never seen that. But, as you mention it, I remember reading a
Windows README.DOC file (some time ago) and it said that some versions of
MSCDEX had some problems with Windows where you wouldn't be able to access the
CDROM unless you had accessed the CDROM before launching Windows (a simple DIR
would do it). This sounds like a reasonable option to the problem both of you
are having.
B.T.W. I just checked and noticed there is a new version of MSCDEX included
with MS DOS 6.2. You might want to try it.
Thanks, Gus. I'm just now moving to 6.2 from 5.0 – we'll see!
Dave
>>Me CD sometimes don't CD with 3D…
Dave and Michael,
I remember running into this a long time ago. I fixed it by accessing the CD
once at boot time. I put the line
DIR K:\*.exe > nul
in my AUTOEXEC.BAT file, and have no current CD visibility problems. I vaguely
remember an access bug with MSCDEX related to this.
JKJ
JKJ:
That seems to be the consensus! Thanks.
Dave
Gary,
As I told Gus "I have ONLY the 3DSR3 CD in my CD drive when booting R3.
It only happens sporatically.
– Mike
Kevin's solution to read the drive first sounds like a good thing to try.
Just put it in your batch file that calls 3dshell.com and you should be fine.
– G