Well, I may have found the answer to my own problem with respect to CD
Rom Drives NOT reading and perhaps a lot of other people's problems as
it relates to ATAPI and D.M.A. of off IDE cables.....Windows XP -
Device Manager - IDE Controller - Properties - All Drives must read
"DMA if available" as opposed to PIO only. Read
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device...e/IDE-DMA.mspx (In Google
put, Windows XP CD Rom and DMA). Also check out
http://www.real-knowledge.com/dma.htm....Good Luck. This was a tough
one! Detfree23



Detfree23 Wrote:
> FJ here - hoping someone might have some input with respect to Windows
> XP not reading a CD Rom. In addition to knowing the driver is working
> and the O.S. does see the CD Rom, yet won't read any disk, I've gone to
> Device Manager and properties of the CD Rom and there are places within
> the "Properties Tab" where I read to try and uncheck "Enable digital CD
> audio for the CD-Rom," save it, and go back and re-check it and it would
> work (at least for someone). I have a strong feeling it has something
> to do with Windows XP itself, perhaps the registry??? I've uninstalled
> and rebooted and always, the drive is found and installed with house
> driver. I've disabled and re-enabled CD-Rom drive. I've changed drive
> letters to no avail. This is a Windows XP Pro box. it simply says,
> "Please insert a disk into drive D."


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Detfree23