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Solution posted in case anyone else has the same problem, and for discussion in case anyone has an explanation---- At 09:45 PM 4/28/97 -0700, Karen wrote: >>>The SCSI card is recognized and the CD player is recognized as a D:\ drive. >>>The drive is not damaged because it plays audio cds when disconnected from >>>the TP. When it is connected to the TP however it spins nonstop and the >>>computer locks up when I tried to open My Computer or Explorer and the >>>computer tries to read the drive's directory. I can only stop the drive by >>>opening it and have to hard reboot the computer. Auto notification of cds >>>is disabled. >>At 12:00 PM 4/28/97 -0400, Daniel Helfrich wrote: >> >>I had similar symptoms for a while. I got to the point where I thought >>there was a hardware problem. Then it started working for me. The best >>I could figure was that the SCSI card was "confused." I decided that my >>problem was cleared up once I fully shut down the T/P normally, with the >>SCSI card installed. The powering-down seemed to reset the card so that >>as long as I had the CD-ROM on and all plugged together, it worked fine >>the next time I booted up. It may be that you are stuck like I was-- >>everytime I rebooted from the locked up state, the card was left "confused." >>Once the card is cleared/reset/powered-down normally, it seems to be fine. >>I haven't had a lock up in quite some time, thankfully. >> >>This isn't much, but good luck with it, >> >>Dan > > >Dan, > >It was good enough! I plugged in the card with drive on while the TP was >off. I booted, didn't try to access the drive and shut down again. Rebooted >and bingo it works now! Isn't that odd. I guess I was trying to use it >first time every time, but who'd have thought not to? Anyway, I'm happy >now. It's not even that I need to use the drive that bad, it was the >challenge I couldn't let go of <G>. > >Thank you, > >Karen -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel D. Helfrich, Landsat 7 Mechanical Systems Engineer, Landsat Project NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA 20771 phone: (301)286-8481 fax: (301)286-1744 email: helfrich@gsfc.nasa.gov