Playing a music CD without using the hard drive

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Chris Alanson - 11 Nov 2003 04:55 GMT

When I play a music CD in Windows ME, the hard drive light
is constantly flashing. I guess it's buffereing the
music, right? Is there any way I can tell Windows ME to
buffer to memory since I have a lot of memory and I don't
think it really needs to buffer to disk.

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Richard G. Harper - 11 Nov 2003 12:35 GMT

More likely than not the hard drive light is flashing because the hard drive
controller also runs your CD-ROM drive, it sees the CD drive being accessed,
so it flashes.

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> When I play a music CD in Windows ME, the hard drive light
> is constantly flashing. I guess it's buffereing the
> music, right? Is there any way I can tell Windows ME to
> buffer to memory since I have a lot of memory and I don't
> think it really needs to buffer to disk.

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Chris Alanson - 13 Nov 2003 20:16 GMT

Oh. Thanks.

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Richard G. Harper - 14 Nov 2003 04:00 GMT

You're welcome.

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