Excessive CD-ROM Activity

[Guardian]

I'm experiencing excessive and prolonged CD-ROM drive access when I remove a CD from the drive. Also, I can create a CD-R using my Yahama CD-RW drive that can be read in other CD-ROMs on other machines and it can be read on my DVD drive but can't be read in my CD-ROM drive. The drive just seems to be in a read loop. The CD-ROM drive has no problems reading commercial CDs but doesn't want to stop attempting to read the disc after it's removed. Takes almost 5 minutes before the CD-ROM settles down. The CD-ROM drive is an AOpen 56X drive.

Hope this doesn't sound too confusing. I'm running an AMD T-Brid 1.33Mhz on an EPOX 8KTA3 board with 512MB SDRAM. My operating system is Win XP and all my drives are recognized for what they are. I don't believe I had this problem under WinME.

Thanks

[Terrorbyte]

there must be a setup problem with the recording software, with XP you can drag and drop from a folder view (like explorer) onto the icon for the burner, it will prompt for a disk (give it one) and click on write.

Try that and see if that helps, at least it will isolate the software as the problem.

I have a Aopen 52x, damm dangerous thing, it will damage disks and nearly chop off fingers coz it goes in and out so fast, got me a few times....

My drive will sometimes seem to not want to give back the CD thats in it, and "sometimes" will take 10 seconds or so to give it up, must be common to the Aopen CD or XP or the combination of both.

[BFD Eyegore]

I have noticed that on some of the higher speed cd roms they will spin reguardless of cd's being in there or not. I am led to believe it is some sort of spooling. So that when you do try to access the drive it is already spinning and takes less time to get up to speed and thus shorten access time. I have a 52x cd rom that appears to run all the time except when it is open. I hope this helps.

[Guardian]

Thanks for both responses. And yes, the AOpen drive tray does open and shut quite rapidly.

The problem with all this spinning activity is that my PC momentarily locks up, mouse won't move, windows won't shut-down. It's really annoying, especially when it does this for over a minute!

If it is a problem with AOpen CD-ROM drives, I'll try and swap it out with another one I've got.

[Terrorbyte]

interesting, mine wont spin anywhere unless there is a disk in it ? you might have to follow up on that one ?