You could have found the answer through a search of the forum. GlynH solved it.
GlynH
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Joined: Dec 17, 2002
Posts: 4 Posted: 2002-12-18 20:38
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Thanks for the reply guys.
Astroman: I tried both Plextor drives - the Akai CD-ROM could not be seen. The Pioneer DVD drive would not even recognise the Akai formatted CD-ROM as the light on the drive just kept flashing continually.
Herr Voigt: Glad you got your problem sorted by using the Adaptec ASPI layer - it didn't work here but...
After trawling through hundreds of posts here I saw reference to a different revision of Akai.dll from Creamware.
I downloaded and installed this but no change - until after a reboot and now I can see the Akai CD-ROM!
Why do Creamware not only not mention this file anywhere?
Worse still why is it virtually hidden on their website?
I had the same problem looking for the updated 2K/XP WDM driver...
For any more poor, unfortunate souls who have the same problem here are the links to the files;
ftp://ftp.creamware.de/software/manuals ... s/akai.dll
http://shop.creamware.de/shop2000/de/sh ... enDocument