Don, the problems may be related.  Look in the Device Manager and make
sure that auto-insert notification is disabled for your CDR drive.  My
HP 4020i drive did the same thing until I turned off auto-insert.

Drew Dunn
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Don LeCLaire wrote:
>
> Dear PC-BUILDERS,
>
>    I have an internal Panasonic/Matsushita CW-7502 CDR drive
> that has been giving me problems since I installed it and I'm
> trying to determine whether the drive is faulty or I have a
> configuration or hardware support problem. My system is a 200mhz
> Pentium Pro, 64MB RAM, on an AIR P6-NDP motherboard
> (http://www.airwebs.com/p6ndp.html) running Windows 95.
> The motherboard has an onboard Adaptec AHA7880 Ultra Wide SCSI
> controller servicing both the CDR drive and a 3.2GB Quantum
> Fireball hard drive. CDR software is the latest Adaptec
> CD Creator Deluxe and Direct CD.
>
>    The first problem is it takes 30 seconds or more from the
> time you insert a CD to the time you are able to open a window
> to the drive. During this time any clicking on the
> drive icon can cause the entire system to lock up to the
> point where a hardware reset is your only option. Once the
> drive responds it seems to perform Ok for reading CDs and
> writing packet data via Direct CD software. Does this sound
> like a driver problem, hardware timeouts, something else?
> Is there anything I can do to increase response time?
>
> The second problem is more serious and occurs during CD copying
> using the CD Creator Pro software. Attempting to copy a CD
> image from the Quantum drive to the CDR sometimes works and
> sometimes doesn't. I've got a nice collection of CD coasters
> but not a lot of successful CD copies. I originally had a
> NEC CD drive on the same SCSI bus with the hard drive and
> CDR and found that to be totally unworkable. I believe the
> SCSI bus is terminated properly so at this point I'm out of
> ideas. Is there any other tests I can run to determine
> where the problem might be? Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> --don
>
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