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Not long ago, a member of this list posted a link to www.insight.com re an inexpensive refurb 4x cd-rom pcmcia. Frustrated by my inability to get direct cable connection to work (despite help offered by others on the list) I followed up on that post and bought one. The unit installed easily and worked fine. Today, after a week of non-use, when I fired up the TP701c, the cd-rom drive was out of sight, as in not present. No icon for the d:drive as the cd-rom appeared in My Computer, as it did before. I tried detecting for new hardware, and nothing happened. I then turned everything off, and pulled the pcmcia (adaptec scsi) card. Next I turned on the cd-rom, rebooted, and plugged the card back in. Once again, I tried to detect for new hardware; none was found. Mysteriously, however, the d:drive was recognized, with no need to re-install drivers. Does anyone have a clue as to why this happened (or what I might do to prevent it reoccurring)? Thanks. -- Peter Lewis pele@wolfenet.com