PerfectRip & CDRWIN Cannot See My SATA Drive

[MrTikki]

So I've run into this issue with CDRWIN and PerfectRip now, and so I thought I'd go ahead and ask the question: does PerfectRip (and CDRWIN for that matter) only scan for IDE drives? My current drive is a SATA drive, and neither program can detect it.

Figured I'd answer this question for future reference once and for all.

Cheers!
-MrTikki-

[iR0b0t]

cdrwin has very limited support, mostly ide only, directly connected drives, no adapters! (because of outdated drivers)

[pablogm123]

For me, PF and CDTool (both by the same guy, Truman) work perfectly with these kind of drives:

-Internals connected to a SiI-680 PCI card.
-Externals connected via eSATA, JMB-363 card.
-Externals connected via USB 2.0.

Both use the standard SPTI layer, nothing special required. Try running it with administrator privileges.

I don't know anything about CDRWin because I don't run this program.

[MrTikki]

That's a bit of a bummer about the SATA adapters, but I did just buy a PCI-E card that will provide a dedicated IDE adapater. Sounds like it's similar to that SiI-680, so perhaps that will "trick" it (???). I'll post my results if it works. 

Also, I got the suggestion to use CDRWIN for some DC dumping from tossEAC (or rather from a guide he sent me). I have pablogm123's suggestions as well, so I was simply going to run both and see which one worked best. However, I ran into the same issue with CDRWIN not seeing my drive, so I wondered if there was something related to the SATA drivers.

Sounds like the myth is certainly "Plausible"... 

[pablogm123]

PLEXTOR DVDR   PX-755A: Attached to a JMB363 based card, externally (eSATA), it's actually a PX-755SA.

HL-DT-STCD-RW GCE-8526B and PIONEER DVD-RW  DVR-107D: Attached to a SiI-680 card.

Both cards have the option ROM erased, therefore aren't bootable.

The OS I'm running is Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2, with no ASPI layers installed ( and no intentions to install them).

[MrTikki]

Just updating this thread with my findings. Things started working once I:

• Installed my IDE PCI-E adapter (which allowed me to hookup my Plextor drives)
• Installed FrogASPI to enable ASPI compatibility on Windows 7 64-bit
• Updated my drive's firmware to the latest version

My SATA drive shows up on CDRWin now, though I haven't tried using it to rip based on iR0B0t's comments (above). I suspect the older versions of CDRWin are better suited for IDE drives only...which is good to know, I suppose.

Cheers!
-MrTikki-

[pablogm123]

Just a thing, you have installed the authentic CDRWin (the developed by Golden Hawk, not the "another one"), haven't you?