Waiting time while trying to access an empty optical drive.

[Marlby23]

Hi, i've had this annoyance since i began using TC, but with the addition of a new optical drive (3 total) now it's getting worse since i click the wrong drive letter by mistake more often than before.

The problem is that whenever i click on a drive letter assigned to an optical drive and the drive itself it's empty, TC "freezes" for about a minute+ or so before giving the "drive not found!" error. As far as i know theres not a command or way to cancel this operation making this behaviour incredibly annoying.

Is there a way to avoid this? i have autorun and the "Shell hardware detection" service disabled, i suppose that's the cause of this issue? ..i don't really want to reenable them just to get this working as expected..

Thanks in advance for any help on this

[Marlby23]

By the way, if i do the same thing with explorer, an "insert disk" message pops up immediately.

Cheers.

[petermad]

2Marlby23

Interesting - if I click the drive button of an empty CD-drive and my DVD-drive it takes about 2 seconds before I get the "Drive not found" dialog under Win XP SP2.

If I use the dropdown drive combobox, the dialog pops immediately.

I have Autorun and Shell hardware detection disabled just as you.

What OS are you using ?

[StickyNomad]

2Marlby23

AFAIK This has been improved in TC 7. I couldn't find the according entry in history.txt, but at least here on XP SP2, TC 7 shows the 'drive not found'-dialog immediately.

EDIT
Hm, I tried around a bit and it does not depend on TCs version but on the INI-entry

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CdCloseDoor=0

in the [configuration] section of wincmd.ini is the key. The default value is 1, and then TC tries to close a drive when no disc is found. So inserting 'CdCloseDoor=0' should do the job for you. This works already in TC 6.x

[petermad]

2StickyNomad

I just tried it in TC 6.56 - not any signifant difference compared to TC 7.

[StickyNomad]

2petermad

not any signifant difference compared to TC 7.

You are right, I tried CdCloseDoor=1|0 in TC 7 and 6.56 and in both versions the result is the same:

0 = dialog pops up immediately with both my drives.
1 = a quite annoying delay (cd writer: ~15 secs/DVD writer: ~5 secs)

I re-edited my post...

[petermad]

If I use CdCloseDoor=1 I have the aforementioned 2 seconds delays.

If I use CdCloseDoor=0 The "Drive not found" pops absolutely immediately.

[petermad]

If I use CdCloseDoor=1 I have the aforementioned 2 seconds delays.

If I use CdCloseDoor=0 The "Drive not found" pops absolutely immediately.

[Marlby23]

2Marlby23

AFAIK This has been improved in TC 7. I couldn't find the according entry in history.txt, but at least here on XP SP2, TC 7 shows the 'drive not found'-dialog immediately.

EDIT
Hm, I tried around a bit and it does not depend on TCs version but on the INI-entry

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CdCloseDoor=0

in the [configuration] section of wincmd.ini is the key. The default value is 1, and then TC tries to close a drive when no disc is found. So inserting 'CdCloseDoor=0' should do the job for you. This works already in TC 6.x

Thanks alot, StickyNomad, that indeed did the trick

Just for the record i noticed (using filemon) that with that setting enabled TC called the file mcicda.dll in a variety of paths before finding it in the windows folder, i was about to point this out but well it's irrelevant now since this can be avoided with that setting.. Well thanks again!

Cheers

p.s. my O.S. is XP Pro, SP2.

[petermad]

2Marlby23

Thanks alot, StickyNomad, that indeed did the trick

But it doesn't explain why it only takes 2 seconds on my PC but 1 minute on your PC, when we are NOT using CdCloseDoor=0

[Sticky]

Oh my goodness, thank you so much for this!

This was also quite a pain for me; The delay on my system was only about 5 seconds, but that's about 5 seconds too many! But CdCloseDoor=0 works for me!

Thanks!

[Lefteous]

TC 7 displays the cd volume name as tooltip or just the drive name if no media is inserted so it's not really necessary to click on the drive icon...

[Stance]

Tooltip: No media is inserted.

It could be so easy!

[ghisler(Author)]

If only it were - TC asks the drive to close the tray to read in the CD if CdCloseDoor=1. It then waits for a reaction of the drive. Unfortunately it depends on the speed of the drive firmware how long it takes until the drive notices a CD, or reports "drive empty". There are really fast drives like my Pioneer read-only drive, and really slow drives like some burners...