I have an older cd burner (philips) and I'm having problems with it. The tray won't open and it does not respond to the tray open button. my question is can this be due to driver problems? the kids put a cd in it and I can't get it opened. I finally opened the case and unhooked it, because every time it boots it tries to read it and it was causing problems. If anyone has any imput on this please get back to me. Thanks
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most probably the CD-burner is set as slave. my CD-ROM drive has this problem too. if you keep a CD in it at boot-time it won't be recognised by windows (thats what happens with me). i know my CD-ROM drive is old but don't want to upgrade it right now
make a point of not leaving a CD in it at the time of shutdown. to get the CD out, restart the PC and press the open button at the time of POST (power on self test) or at the time when it is shutting down. its a very small time that you will get to have the CD out.
another way to do it is press F9 at boot-up. it will show you the bootloader menu (the devices). get the CD out and close the tray and you should be done.
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I had a customer with that problem. He put a 700mb cdrw in his older Yamaha burner and it totally crashed the system everytime. So i tried the burner in other machines, same problem. I used the pin trick to get it out. And the disc reads and writes fine in any other drive, so i saved the data onto a cdr for him and confiscated the cdrw(for his own good).
Rebooting after the crash would work sometimes, but the drive was missing every time (no letter anymore). No computer i tried could recognize the drive with that disc in it.
Best i can figure is the drive was made well before 700mb cdrw was. like 1998 when they cost $400cdn
Nothing wrong with the drive , it works fine. And i still use the disc.
What a neat little 2cm fan in the back of the drive, the only one i have ever seen with a fan.athlon xp-m@2456mhz(12x204)
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well, i got me a BTE 52x24x52x like a month ago and when i first installed it, it worked fine, i burned a few cds and it still worked fine. but now its sometimes recognized by device manager but it doesn't appear on my computer nor i can use it with any burning software. i think i changed the jumper settings(don't know why) but i think its that .....i still got those small pins for both drives(a cd-rom and the burner) so where do i put'em?, i want the cd-rom to be master and burner to be slave and both got 6 pins( 3 by 2 or 2 by 3 or ::: )
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There should be a key map on the drives, it will look something like this :::.
The single pin is for orientation.
It should be on a sticker or cast in the plastic or stamped in the metal.athlon xp-m@2456mhz(12x204)
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thermaltake xaserIII lanfire
bfg 6800gt
seagate sataII 250gb/seagate 7200rpm 160gb ide
samsung dvdrw
2x1024 kingston hyper-x pc3200/ windows xp pro sp3
logitech mx518/ logitech wingman rumble
2x samsung 955df 19"/ canon i960
creative x-fi fatal1ty 64mb/ altec lansing 251-5.1
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thermaltake tsunami dream -black
seagate sataII 500gb
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samsung sata dvd-rw
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yes, as maximus 7001 stated it is normally on the drive itself
sometimes it is only designated as;
M for master
S for slave
CS for cable select
Be advised, some CD-R/CD-RW drives do not contend well being a slave on the IDE channel and may not operate/be recognized with 100% accuracy and efficiency.
If the slave setting just doesn't cut it, switch it back to master on the IDE channel.The reason a diamond shines so brightly is because it has many facets which reflect light.
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Originally posted by WiggoVery few CDRW's are happy at all in the slave position. Burning requires the CDRW to have full control of the IDE channel which it can't do in Slave mode.
These came up in the event log:
8:11:49 PM HP CD-Writer+9100
Invalid write state
8:11:49 PM HP CD-Writer+9100
Could not perform EndTrack
8:11:49 PM HP CD-Writer+9100
SCSI Target error
8:11:49 PM HP CD-Writer+9100
Could not perform Fixation
Burn process failed at 4x (600 KB/s)
Would this be software related or hardware? And would the slave position be the problem, but I also have had the CDRW in slave in the past and have had no problems up till now.
I haven't tried any other programs yet, but I will later tonight.
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