Jim, I've had similar problems with mine. What I found is that if you use the
cd player to eject your music cd, then; the cd works fine or if it doesn't; just
keep the cd player on screen and us it to eject the cd's. I know it's weird,
BUT; it worked for me.
Sorry, can't help you on the remainder.
Hope it helps.
Bruce :-)
Jim wrote:
> I still haven't recieved any help with this and since upgrading to 7.1 it
> seems worse
>
> I installed MD 7.1, I have a creative cdrw 4224 and I can play music on it
> just fine under linux, however when I go to access it for files, the light
> comes on and after a few minutes I get an error message that the contents of
> the directory /mnt/cdrom can not be displayed....now the weird....I can't
> eject the cd and the light stays on. If I don't completely power down the
> machine the cdrom isn't recognized by the bios on the reboot. If I
> completely shut down the power for the recomended 15 seconds and turn it
> back on my cdrom is back in the boot list again.
>
> Can anyone help me with all this weirdness?
>
> I am running an AMD K6-3 450, 128 mb ram, on a gigabyte MB, with the Ali
> Aladdin V AGPset rev 5.
>
> I have had problems with the cd-rw in linux from the begining and haven't
> gotten it fixed, but it never removed it from the bios before...what gives
> here?
>
> Jim
