PIONEER DRM-624X

[DGB]

Hi All,
I have a Pioneer DRM-624X 6 disk magazine type external CD drive.  I bought it on eBay and it seem to be in good condition.  I am still using Asim CDFS 2.0 which lists this series of Pioneer drives but as 6xx-X.  I assume that was because they were constantly upgrading the read speed and the last two xx digits were the speed.  CDFS sees this drive and asks me how I want to configure it, (one drive or six).  I go through all the motions and it still won't put any icons on the workbench screen.  When I boot up the drive goes through all the slots  and then lets the machine continue booting up.  I thought that maybe that was the problem so I pulled the mag and put it back in after boot up.  It still went through all the mag looking at every CD but put nothing on the workbench screen.  I looked at it with OPUS where it is shown but it says there is no disk in it.  I am wondering if anybody has this drive and if so do they know anything I can do to fix it or troubleshoot it.  I sort of wonder if the laser is bad or not functioning.  It could be the pick-up too.  All ideas and suggestions are appreciated.  Thanks.

Dave


 

[that_punk_guy]

I DON'T THINK PIONEER IS AN ACRONYM, AND THEREFORE I DOUBT IT SHOULD BE ALL IN CAPITALS LIKE THIS.

[that_punk_guy]

Sorry... :-(

DGB wrote:

I sort of wonder if the laser is bad or not functioning.  It could be the pick-up too.  All ideas and suggestions are appreciated.
 

Try connecting it to a PC?

[Crusher]

I have an DRM-604X next to my Amiga and it´s normal that it goes through all the disks.
What I had to do (or wanted) was that I made Dosdrivers for all of the 6 disks that pointed at 6 mountlists... iirc that is. Then I mounted everyone and use the diskchange command to see the icons from the disks, but you can only have one "starticon" at the time because it´s only one disk at a time.
Did that make any sense or should I go and sleep now?  :-)
I´ll take a look at it when I get my Amiga working again, new cooler is required for my A3640.

[DGB]

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I DON'T THINK PIONEER IS AN ACRONYM, AND THEREFORE I DOUBT IT SHOULD BE ALL IN CAPITALS LIKE THIS.

Sometimes all capitols are used for emphasis ...Seen any billboards lately?  Also, PIONEER chose to put it that way on the front of the drive.  Given a choice I think I'll go with them.  After what I've seen written here I have to ask if you actually think anyone cares?

[DGB]

Try connecting it to a PC?

I did but there are no drivers for it for XP and none of my PC's are runing older versions of Windows.  Also I no longer have a SCSI board for the PC's as it was also outdated by the new OS.

[that_punk_guy]

DGB wrote:
Sometimes all capitols are used for emphasis ...Seen any billboards lately?  Also, PIONEER chose to put it that way on the front of the drive.  Given a choice I think I'll go with them.  After what I've seen written here I have to ask if you actually think anyone cares?

I think you should care. Why must your subject line be emphasised? It is no more important than anyone else's. The majority of consumer goods have the company's name in capitals, so I guess we should talk about AMIGAs instead of Amigas. Also, people's general estimation of your IQ will dramatically decrease when they see you needlessly use capital letters. It just looks arrogant.

I care. It hurts my eyes.

And mikeymike already altered one of your subject lines. I don't believe I ever saw 'ANNOYING GRAPHIC' written anywhere in capitals.

Sorry that I don't have any better ideas for your problem. Hope you get it sorted out :-)