CD-ROM

[Jake]

My CD-Rom is reading kind of funny. It reads in spurts. A little of the program gets going and then a pause. Then it goes some more. It's a Toshiba (supposed to be a good one.) I tried uninstalling and starting again. I had another Creative labs CD- ROM that made wierd noises when trying to read the CD. I think I may need a new one but any suggetions would be great. Running windows98. Plug and play loaded up the CD-rom without any errors I noticed. No conflicts in the sys. information. Thanks, Jake

[RobRich]

Under your drives properties, try changing its settings. Try disabling "disconnect" and "sync data transfer". If this doesn't help, try disabling its DMA transfer option. Some cdrom drives don't function well when DMA transfers are enabled. Hope this helps http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[kdon]

i got an Asus 40X cd rom.
it is fast and stable.

[kdon]

Also it is PnP. The win98 can detect it.

[CMonster]

Sometimes an antivirus program is set to monitor the CDROM drive if this is the case try disabling that feature. Also, sometimes if you have the drive chained with another drive on the secondary IDE try reversing the master/slave designations - and some hard disks have different jumper settings for when used in combination with "non-ATA" drives.

Finally, make sure you are not loading any CDROM driver in autoexec.bat/config.sys