"Sabrina L. Nelson" wrote:
> I've been having this intermittent problem on my PowerTower 225 Pro
> for a couple of years now. It seems that the CD-ROM refuses to show
> up on the desktop when a disk is inserted. I've tried everything
> from using CDT to updating CD drivers from Apple -- currently using
> Mac OS 8.5.1. Even had a Mac tech look at it and he found no
> problems. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. End of story...
>
> Has anyone else had this problem? My workaround was to just buy an
> external SCSI CD burner/reader and use that instead. It usually
> works, although I still have to use SCSI probe sometimes to make sure
> the disk mounts.
>
> Sabrina
>
Pulling the CD-rom and physically cleaning the lens fixed this same problem on
my PCC150.
CO
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