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Re: Problem with CD-ROM drive on Windows NT
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Thu, 1 Jun 2000 16:04:42 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> I was probably not precise enough. I burned the offending CD on
> another person's computer. When I tried it in my own, the system
> locked up and I've never gained access to the CD drive again. I have
> no idea what happened.
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> This is Windows NT 4 on a Compaq Deskpro workstation.
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> I've tried to look into the configuration menus, but there doesn't
> appear to be anything I can use there.
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> Ah, well. I can always call the system operators and have them help
> me. But I'd rather be able to fix it myself...
If I remember correctly, and don't bet the farm on this, the only way a normal
CDROM can read CDs that are written with Direct CD is to have a UDF driver
installed. If you don't have administrator access on your own workstation
(not uncommon in a business environment) you probably wouldn't have been able
to really install it, but it might have tried anyway and mucked something up.
I seem to recall those things putting the driver install on every packet-
written cd they make, so you _should_ be able to take it to another machine
and have it work, but I could be mistaken.
Get your tech guys to fix it - that's what they get paid for. :)
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| (...) :-) I've tried accessing various configuration menus and restarted the system many times. But the CD-ROM was still unavailable. What finally appeared to do the work, though, was simply opening the CD drive and poking on the read head slightly, (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Problem with CD-ROM drive on Windows NT
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| (...) Yeah, that's the part I disliked about it. I had to burn a lot of files at work, and with Adaptec Direct CD this took ages, since each file was done separately. I actually used three hours to burn a single CD. On a 2x drive! And it failed to (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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