Unable to read CD-Rs and CD-RWs

[Dimedrol]

All of a sudden my CD-ROM stopped recognizing the disks I burn.

I use both Nero and Roxio intechangeably.

I put the just-finished disk into CD-ROM drive and nothing happens -
it is not recognized by the system. CDRW drive accesses it and reads
it OK.

At the same time CD-ROM reads commercially made CDs (data, and audio)

Can someone help me with this, please?

My system is as follows:

PIII800 with 512MB RAM with Win2K SP2

IDE1
Master - HD
Slave - HD

IDE2
Master - AOpen CD-RW (CRW1232A)
Slave - Acer 40X ATAPI CD-ROM

This configuration worked up till recently

I do not really know what has changed; I am suspecting it may have
something to do with ASPI - but I am not sure.

And it is plain annoying - I can not make CD copies now - I have to
copy the contents to HD first and then make a CD from it (which MAY be
a correct way to do it - but still annoying)

I would appreciate a CC to

ICQ 6124479
dim...@onebox.com

[You Know Who ~]

Are you certain you have finalized the disk?
In general, is is strongly recommended that you NOT set up things the way
you have. the hard drives should both be masters. The CDR's should be
slaves.

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"Dimedrol" <user.an...@localhost.to> wrote in message
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[Dimedrol]

I have changed my system as recommended below...

And only CDs burnt on my system are not read by CD drive - light comes
on briefly and then goes away..

Commecial CDs are read.. and CD-Rs and CD-RWs that I make are read by
CDRW drive, including DirectCD (UDF) disks.

Very annoying

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 05:31:32 GMT, "You Know Who ~"
<you_kn...@att.net> wrote:

>Are you certain you have finalized the disk?
>In general, is is strongly recommended that you NOT set up things the way
>you have. the hard drives should both be masters. The CDR's should be
>slaves.
>
>--
>You know who~
>Windows Help, Cat Pictures and Software at
>http://You_Know_Who.home.att.net/
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>"Clothes make the man. Naked people have
> little or no influence in society" Mark Twain (1835-1910)
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ICQ 6124479
dim...@onebox.com

[Dimedrol]

I have changed the config to have both CD units on SLAVE positions...

I just burnt a CD-RW disk with Nero 5.5.6.4 and finalized it.

The CD-ROM drive does not read the disk. Drive spins and the green
light comes on... and then it stops and when I try to access it
through Windows Explorer it keeps showing message "Please insert a CD
in drive..."

Again, commercial CDs are recognized and played by it.

Any ideas?

TIA

ICQ 6124479
dim...@onebox.com

[m...@somecompany.somewhere]

I still am unable to find an answer to this question. Can anyone share
their ideas?

Short of reformating and re-installing the system from scratch I am
running out of options.

Appreciate input

ICQ 6124479
dimdur at onebox dot com

[SleeperMan]

Could be that one of the lasers has burnt-out. There are more than one
laser in drive, since different laser is used for commercial and again
different for CDR's and CDRW's.

<m...@somecompany.somewhere> je napisal v sporocilo
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[David Cohen]

"SleeperMan" <prot...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<iu_38.1328$a6.5...@news.siol.net>...

From what you have said I would suspect the cd-rom reader. Can you
read your cd's on another machine.
Dave Cohen

[Dimedrol]

I did not know that - thanks I will try this one

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 21:55:09 +0100, "SleeperMan" <prot...@yahoo.com>
wrote:

[V-man]

You mean some CDROM drives have 2 lasers? For what reason? laptop
CDROMs seem to have only one lens (maybe multi laser???) and so do the
drives in the IMac.

But I think that the optical properties of CDR is quite close to
CDROM. CDRW are tougher to read due to the 1 and 0 being harder to
differentiate.

V-man

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[Dimedrol]

I have tried the disks on another computer and they all work. I
replaced my CD-ROM drive and now everything is back to normal. I thank
all who provided their advice.