Hi Jim,
Have you looked for a firmware upgrade from Creative? I had this same problem
with my CD-RW drive and then after I found a firmware upgrade all is well. My
drive is a Memorex however the problem your describing is exactly what happened
to me. I thought it a loose cable at first also like someone else suggested
but it wasnt. Hope this helps.
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, you 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
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