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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1995
WINDOWS
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The information in this article applies to:
 
 - Microsoft Complete Baseball, 1994 edition
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SUMMARY
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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
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The CD-ROM drive may have difficulty reading the final three directories,
listed below, from the Complete Baseball CD-ROM:
 
FILES                          LOCATION ON DISK
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ZZMMCAT\DIBS2                     589-590 MB
ZZMMCAT\DIBS1                     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
-----                          ----------------
 
VIDEO\T162034A.AVI                562 MB
VIDEO\T161525A.AVI                541 MB
BAGGAGE\ZIMAGES.M11               536 MB
 
The Complete Baseball 1994 CD-ROM contains 590 MB of data. The final
file on the CD-ROM is ZZMMCAT\DIBS2\NGPOPD.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
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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
-----                          ----------------
 
VIDEO\T162034A.AVI                562 MB
VIDEO\T161525A.AVI                541 MB
BAGGAGE\ZIMAGES.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.
 
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Keywords          : media multi multi-media multimedia 
Version           : 1995
Platform          : WINDOWS
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