> Anthony Power <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> As a follow up. I replaced the cable and still I cannot read a CD. The bios
> properly identifies the CD-RW. I removed this CD-RW and installed a 4x CDROM
> and this was successful. I loaded windows, reconnected the CD-RW, checked
> Control Panel > System> Device Manager and the CD-RW was again properly
> identified by Win98; but I still could not read  a CD. So my guess is the
> CD-RW is bad. I'm going to have it tested at work.

Yes, I would suspect it is bad. Old CDROM drives at one time used to have
proprietary interfaces, but they are all either IDE or SCSI now.

CDR and CDRW drives will look just like a CDROM drive, unless you use software
to write to them. The fact that it is recognized means the interface is
compatible, if it just won't read a CD (gives an error), then it must be bad.


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