On Sun, 2005-23-01 at 16:06 -0500, Larry Richardson wrote: > Anyone seen this under FC2 on a dell machine, where the button on the > drive door will just decide at random that it won't respond to a press? > Once this happens, I can't get the cd-rom drive to respond at all... > the only cure seems to be a re-boot. Has anyone experienced something > similar, and/or found a way to get the drive to respond again without > rebooting? Only because I have this on a bunch of Windows 2000 machines am I suggesting this. The drive seems to be detached from the system, or the computer has put the drive in some sort of a sleep mode. I have 14 Dimension 4000's with CD-RW drives in them, and every single ones does this. After an undetermined amount of time, the drive will not open. You also get the unsafe removal of a device (under windoes 2000) screen up, like if you yanked out a memory key without stopping it. One user reported this problem while he was burning a CD. A phone call to Dell tech support was to no avail. The common thing about these machines is that I ghosted 13 of them over from the same image, and would have wrote it off to that fact, had I not also installed Windows 2000 Server on one as a test. It does it on that one too. I haven't called Dell again yet, but something tells me it's the drives themselves. I may have an opportunity to test this on Thursday with another drive. Not that this helps, but it gives you something else to think about. -=/>Thom
