Hi Jim,
        There's probably a more complicated solution, but you might try a
simple CD cleaning kit that cleans the drive.  I had similar problems,
worked for me.

                                        Terry L. Clark
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Jim Smithheisler wrote:
>
> ProStar laptop with a TEAC CD-44E cd rom installed (per system report)
> Pentium 133 cpu with 16M RAM
> Running Windows 98 Beta 3
>
> Problem - when some cd's are placed in drive and door is closed the
> access light continues a slow blink and and attempts to read drive
> result in drive not ready error
>
> The drive accepts some cd's without any problem - only common thread
> seems to be the drive doesn't like newer cd's, ie, it will read old
> W95 cd and a mapping cd just fine.  Refuses to accept my WinHelp cd > and the W98 cd.