At 11:48 PM 2/1/99 , Greg Anderson wrote:
>I am working on a customers PC trying to get a Yamaha CDR-102 burner to
>work again. The drive shows up in the Adaptec SCSI BIOS and it will show up
>under device manager. It shows drive "H" in explorer. But after the first
>attempt to burn a disk, it locks up. We must reboot the PC to recover. As
>the PC comes up you can still see the SCSI BIOS detecting the CDR, in
>Device Manager it shows up. When you check the settings tab there is no
>drive letter. There is also no drive letter associated to the CDR in
>explorer. If I delete the entry in device manager reboot the PC and install
>the SPIRA drivers again it will come up under "other devices" in device
>manager. Can anyone offer any help. This is an AMD K6-2 300MHZ, 96MB SDRAM,
>Adaptec 2940U v1.21. I thank you all in advance for any input you might
>have!

I experienced something very similar with a JVC CD-R last summer.

The JVC 2x4 drive had worked great for about 18 months and
then it started to lock up the system and/or generate I/O errors while
attempting to create a CD.   Of course, since normal CD drives rarely
fail after the initial few months and the price of the drive,  I initially did not
rationalize that the drive had gone bad.   I put in a new Panasonic drive
and it worked fine.   I sent the JVC drive back to be reconditioned and
it once again worked fine.

My anecdotal comment to your problem is the drive 'may be' worn out.

  Bob Wright
The NOSPIN Group

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