[RESOLVED] Auto Insert in W2000

[ozrica]

I have just put together an Athlon 1.4, 512MB DDR2100, 2X40GB hard disk drives on an EPOX RAID Mobo.

The DVD drive is a Hitachi GD7500 and the CDRW is a Plextor 40X16X10 (each drive is on a seperate IDE channel).

As I was installing the OS and all the drivers etc any CD placed in the Hitachi would spin up and auto start as normal.

Now I have finished installation, neither the DVD or the CDRW will acknowledge a disk unless Win2000 is restarted with the disks left in the drives.

I have installed/removed the VIA Bus Mastering drivers supplied but this has made no difference.

Within device manager everything seems fine and I get no other errors with the PC at all.

Anybody know what the problem could be?

Thanks a lot.

Stuart

[MacGyver]

Your CD burning software (read: DirectCD) might be to blame. Try getting a patch from www.roxio.com if you're using EasyCD, or uninstall DirectCD altogether.

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[Jediab]

I heard that Win2000 has an issue with ATAPI devices. Service Pack 2 was supposed to fix it.

Give SP2 a try and let us know how it worked out.

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[ozrica]

Thanks for the advice.

Service pack 2 came with my Windows 2000 so it's already installed.

Direct CD is installed so I'll try removing it.

Thanks a lot once again.

Stuart

[Darren Wilson]

The Plextor Tools Suite has the option to enable/disable auto-insert notification within it. Sometimes the supplied burning software will disable the notification by default on the install, which can be re-enabled using teh PlexTools.

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