No, there are no drivers necessary for IDE CD-ROMs or CD-RW drives used
as readers.  You DO need software to write CDs in the CD-RW drive but
these are not considered to be "drivers".  I have a Creative 32X and
I've always had problems with it locking up my PC when copying a very
large file from a CD to the hard disk.

I could get it to work at the expense of it working slower by changing
the cache size. Go to Settings, Control Panel, System and choose the
Performance tab, then click on the File System button and then choose
the CD-ROM tab.  Change the "Supplemental cache size" setting to its
lowest value and see if this helps.

----- Original Message -----
From: Donald E. Gulmire, Jr. <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 4:23 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] CD Rom Hangs


> I need some information on CDRom installation.  I have a Creative 48X
and a
> Memorex CRW16220 CD writer.  My device manager say's that no drivers
are
> required for these devices.  Are there Windows 98 drivers that must be
> loaded for these?  How do I update them?  My Creative is relatively
new but
> it hangs from time to time.  Any suggestions?  Thanks in advance.
> Don Gulmire
>
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