[RESOLVED] "device not ready" - 40X Digital Research CD ROM

[jawbonejive]

We have used several diagnostics on our new, internal Digital Research 40X IDE CD Rom drive. Once running -- and only when it chooses to -- it runs fine. But, even after cold and warm reboots and just putting it in with "auto run" checked in Win98, Windows comes back with the message "E: Drive is not accessible." and "The device is not ready." Does anybody know what could be going wrong? After all, "sometimes" it is able read the CD Rom perfectly!

[shawnMt]

Have you tried the drive in another machine and with another cable? Sounds like a flakey drive to me. I have had the same problem with multiple samsung drives. I will assume that you are not talking about burned cds not reading. Havent used a digital research before but if it does it in multiple machines, after you are certain that there is no patch/firmware update/new driver I would chunk it and get a nice shiny new mitsumi 48x. You could RMA it but cdroms are hard to rma and if it's just one I would trash it. Oh yeah - make sure you smash the hell out of it first :)
shawn

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