Newsgroups: comp.publish.cdrom.hardware Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!news.dell.com!tadpole.com!uunet!world!jpe From: jpe@world.std.com (James P Edwards) Subject: Re: Pinnacle CD-ROM Woes Message-ID: Keywords: Pinnacle CDROM LU005 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <1994Jun1.163543.25654@dres.dnd.ca> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 19:46:05 GMT Lines: 35 lsidor@dres.dnd.ca (Lyle T Sidor) writes: >jpe@world.std.com (James P Edwards) writes: >|> I recently bought a used Pinnacle CD-ROM model LU005 which supposedly >|> worked just fine. I installed it and its associated driver and mscdex in >|> my computer. Everything boots up fine as long as there is no CD in the >|> drive. If you put a CD in the drive and try read the directory, it hangs >|> for a long time and then displays an abort, retry type message. If a CD >|> is in the drive when the computer is booted up, the machine hangs when >|> the CDROM driver is installed but eventually finishes booting (several >|> minute pause). >|> >|> The driver software came with several types of drivers (ie. DMA, >|> non-DMA). I tried them all. I moved the port, irq, and dma settings >|> around. I tried it in two different computers. >|> >|> Any and all ideas would be appreciated. >If the CD that you are putting in the drive is an audio CD, then that >is likely your problem; the system is trying to access the CD as a >data disk, which it is not. This would also happen with a data CD >with a foreign format (ie. Unix EFS). >-- > ,,, mwM > (o o) ( oo) >----------------------oOO--(_)--OOo---------( O)--------------------- >Lyle Sidor `' | lsidor@dres.dnd.ca >DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT SUFFIELD | PH: (403) 544-4742 >Box 4000, Medicine Hat, Alberta, CANADA T1A 8K6 | FAX: (403) 544-4704 The CD was not an audio CD. However, I tried to play an audio CD using the supplied cdplayer program. The system simply locked up.