I had a TEAC 512E CD Drive which saw all CDs as Audio. A data CD wd show up
in W Explorer as an audio CD with one very small track ! After a while, this
wd happen even if i pressed SHIFT while inserting the CD.
  Here also, Device Manager showed no problem.
  I referred this to the TEAC web site, whose answer was that the drive wd
have to be sent in for repair.
  Sorry, this is not very helpful.

From Thiri PoSaw       [log in to unmask]


----- Original Message -----
From: Glen L. Bowes <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Gold Star CD-ROM


> Sounds like a driver problem, I would try loading a generic IDE CD-ROM
> driver (http://nospin.com/pc/files001.html) in config.sys and mscdex.exe
in
> autoexec.bat. If the drive works alright, find the right drivers for
> windows.
>
> HTH
>
> -----Original Message-----
> I have a friend whose CD-ROM works intermittently but most of the time not
> at
> all. When you try to run a music CD or data CD it says
>
> Q:\ is not accessible
> The device is not ready
>
> I tried checking all the connections for the cables. They seem ok. Any
ideas
> what could cause this. As I said, it will work occasionally.
>
> In device manager it says "this device is working properly". Under Driver
> Tab
> it says "no driver files are required or loaded".
>
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