On 10 Feb 98 at 18:28, Perry Rivera wrote:

> My roommate is having problems with his cd-rom drive.  When I boot up
> to DOS on his pentium 233 computer, his cd-rom drive refuses to close.
>
> I get this problem even when trying to push the door closed as the system
> boots up.
>
> What happens is this:  I push the door closed.  Then, the LED light on
> the cd-rom unit blinks about three times, then the door opens with the
> disc.
>
> I've tried this with--no cdrom, various others--without success.
>
> It's a toshiba 24x drive.
>
> Any ideas, maybe?

  My partner's machine did something similar recently.  I found that
straightening out a kink in the IDE cable to the drive fixed it, so I
replaced that cable.

  [I believe what you're running into is a "fail safe" mechanism that
tries to save your valuable CD from being trapped inside an
inoperable drive.]

David G


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