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Sony ICD-R100 recorder in windows XP
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Originally Posted by taz
I have a Sony ICD-R100PC recorder that I purchased in 1999. The recorder comes with a data cable (parallel port) and some software (Win95/98) that allows you to download the voice files (*.ics) from the recorder onto the computer. I can get the software to "work" under Windows ME. I can also get it to "run" under Windows XP by changing the compatibility mode settings back to Win95/98/ME. However, I was unable to download the files form the recorder in XP, it's as if the computer didn't want to see the recorder was connected. I tried it on other computers and I got the same problem. So, I figured the compatibility wizard wasn't enough to overcome the fact that the Sony PC Link software is too old for today's standards. My question is, has anyone ever tried to mount the recorder as a storage device? Many years ago I used to have an external hard drive that plugged into the parallel port. I wonder if there's a way to mount the recorder file system locally, through the parallel port. There probably isn't but I thought I'd give it a try. It would be nice if it were possible because transferring the files would be a lot faster than having to sit there and wait for the recording to play into the audio input ports of my soundcard so I can record it into digital format. I have already contacted Sony about this and, as I suspected, they say the software will NOT work in XP, there is no USB-data cable available, and they don't believe they will be working on that any time soon.
Thanks in advance for any assistance you may be able to provide. :cheesy:
If so how??
Please email me at bobsmith1 dot America on-line
Thanks
My problem is that I can't even get the software to install on XP. Keep getting a message that I need the latest VB5 files. I have tried the latest (I did make sure they were registered) and also tried the ones from the Windows 98 machine where the recorder worked fine. Any ideas?
I am having the exact same problem with the sony recorder. If by chance you happen to get it to work I would greatly appreciate some advice. My email is bbernard@siumed.edu. Thanks.
I have one of these recorders with the link cable. I did not receive the software so I would be grateful if someone could send me the three setup files (fjagdis@shaw.ca)
It seems that Win XP,2000 and NT do not use the parallel port in the same fashion as Win 9x and this is the problem. I cannot see a fix until someone re-writes the interface.
Because I did not have the software I resorted to other means to transfer the files to the PC :
1. I use a cable (few bucks at Radio Shack) to link the ear phone output to the line in of my sound card (Creative).
2. I set the Creative recorder on and start the ICD-R100
3. This transfers a WAV file.
4. You can save the WAV file and convert it in any way you wish.
The ICS format file is no longer being used by Sony anyways and Sony provides software on their web site to convert ICS to Wav etc.
Hope that this helps others.
It seems that Win XP,2000 and NT do not use the parallel port in the same fashion as Win 9x and this is the problem. I cannot see a fix until someone re-writes the interface.
Because I did not have the software I resorted to other means to transfer the files to the PC :
1. I use a cable (few bucks at Radio Shack) to link the ear phone output to the line in of my sound card (Creative).
2. I set the Creative recorder on and start the ICD-R100
3. This transfers a WAV file.
4. You can save the WAV file and convert it in any way you wish.
The ICS format file is no longer being used by Sony anyways and Sony provides software on their web site to convert ICS to Wav etc.
Hope that this helps others.
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Originally Posted by tatchus
jutl, everything is great. Under XP - my ICD was connected, i can play msgs on ICD, but if i would like to tranfer files from ICD to computer, i have got an error - Run time error 6 - Overflow. What can i have to do? Can you help me?
with the allowio driver but received the same "Run time error 6 - Overflow" error when trying to save a data file.
ANY HINT???:evil:
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Originally Posted by frajag
I have one of these recorders with the link cable. I did not receive the software so I would be grateful if someone could send me the three setup files (fjagdis@shaw.ca)
It seems that Win XP,2000 and NT do not use the parallel port in the same fashion as Win 9x and this is the problem. I cannot see a fix until someone re-writes the interface.
Because I did not have the software I resorted to other means to transfer the files to the PC :
1. I use a cable (few bucks at Radio Shack) to link the ear phone output to the line in of my sound card (Creative).
2. I set the Creative recorder on and start the ICD-R100
3. This transfers a WAV file.
4. You can save the WAV file and convert it in any way you wish.
The ICS format file is no longer being used by Sony anyways and Sony provides software on their web site to convert ICS to Wav etc.
Hope that this helps others.
DAW
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Originally Posted by DAW
Thanks frajag, for the solution, which I plan to use - but how do I find the Creative recorder or equivalent? Thanks again.
DAW
I have just now finished (successfully) the installation of ICD-R100PC's software. Just for others to know, I have overcome several problems some of which I found solutions for in this forum (thanks). Just to summarise, the steps to perform the installation for Windows XP are the following:
1) Install the Sony's software (ICD-PCLINK). This should be done in Windows 95 or 98 compatibility mode - Change the compatibility mode for the Setup.exe in the "properties". If successfull, you should have no problems installing the software, if you fail to do this, the setup requires "the latest patch" - an obvious nonsense.
Note: you can also apply the patches available from Sony (I used version 1.22 but I am not sure whether this is necessary or not.)
2) Install the PortTalk software (at http://www.beyondlogic.org/porttalk/porttalk.htm), run allowio.exe once and then copy the allowio.exe in the same directory where you have icd-pclink.exe. Then always start the icd-pclink.exe as:
allowio icd-pclink.exe /a
(some comment - allowio icd-pclink.exe 378 would seem to be OK but it did not work for me). If you are successful, the program should start OK.
I also created a small batch file containing the above line which works OK.
I switched the ICD-PCLINK.EXE in the Windows 98 compatibility mode but I am not sure whether this is necessary.
3) The program may tell you that the ICD did not connect properly (some stuff about the cable...). This issue can be solved through adjusting the parameters of the parallel port in BIOS and Windows. First, I adjusted the parallel port to Bidirectional mode in BIOS, then I selected configuration with no interrupt and no DMA at ports 378-37F, 778-77F in the device manager in Windows XP (I believe I used configuration 006 but this is probably not that important). I am not that sure that this is the only configuration that works. What is, however, important is that changing the parallel port setup worked so it is worth playing with this...
4) The program seemed to work until I decided to save the data from the ICD to the disk. I got the Overflow error - runtime error 6 - mentioned in this forum. Well, I discovered that the program only saved the files onto a FAT16 partition. I created one using the partition magic software (but many other will do, too). THIS IS THE PROBLEM I DID NOT OVERCOME - IT ONLY SAVES TO FAT16 partitions - definitely not to large FAT32 or NTFS partitions.
That's it
Pavel
1) Install the Sony's software (ICD-PCLINK). This should be done in Windows 95 or 98 compatibility mode - Change the compatibility mode for the Setup.exe in the "properties". If successfull, you should have no problems installing the software, if you fail to do this, the setup requires "the latest patch" - an obvious nonsense.
Note: you can also apply the patches available from Sony (I used version 1.22 but I am not sure whether this is necessary or not.)
2) Install the PortTalk software (at http://www.beyondlogic.org/porttalk/porttalk.htm), run allowio.exe once and then copy the allowio.exe in the same directory where you have icd-pclink.exe. Then always start the icd-pclink.exe as:
allowio icd-pclink.exe /a
(some comment - allowio icd-pclink.exe 378 would seem to be OK but it did not work for me). If you are successful, the program should start OK.
I also created a small batch file containing the above line which works OK.
I switched the ICD-PCLINK.EXE in the Windows 98 compatibility mode but I am not sure whether this is necessary.
3) The program may tell you that the ICD did not connect properly (some stuff about the cable...). This issue can be solved through adjusting the parameters of the parallel port in BIOS and Windows. First, I adjusted the parallel port to Bidirectional mode in BIOS, then I selected configuration with no interrupt and no DMA at ports 378-37F, 778-77F in the device manager in Windows XP (I believe I used configuration 006 but this is probably not that important). I am not that sure that this is the only configuration that works. What is, however, important is that changing the parallel port setup worked so it is worth playing with this...
4) The program seemed to work until I decided to save the data from the ICD to the disk. I got the Overflow error - runtime error 6 - mentioned in this forum. Well, I discovered that the program only saved the files onto a FAT16 partition. I created one using the partition magic software (but many other will do, too). THIS IS THE PROBLEM I DID NOT OVERCOME - IT ONLY SAVES TO FAT16 partitions - definitely not to large FAT32 or NTFS partitions.
That's it
Pavel
Hi
I've got the ICD-R100 but my floppy disks are broken. I cannot find the software (pclink) in the net. Could anyone send me that one by email?
Thanks in advance
PAwol
mail: pawelw@nashuatec.pl
I've got the ICD-R100 but my floppy disks are broken. I cannot find the software (pclink) in the net. Could anyone send me that one by email?
Thanks in advance
PAwol
mail: pawelw@nashuatec.pl
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