OK, so my TEAC 16x SCSI CDROM drive finally bit the bullet about a week ago. I could replace with IDE but, I've got a 2940 UW almost doing nothing if I do that. So, I searched pricewatch for a reasonable replacement and found a place selling a NEW 24x SCSI Cyberdrive unit for $16 + $5 s&h. Checked reseller ratings and they were pretty good (PC Pitstop is the vendor).
So, I *know* I should have bought a namebrand unit, but, not for 3-4x the price. I may as well go IDE then. I figured, heck, it's got to be as good as the TEAC was. I searched the net and it seemed like this drive was not a big seller = I found almost nothing. But, no bad news is sometimes good news, right? Not this time. (The only advantage over my 16x teac is the 8x speed boost and this one can read CDRW's, but, its DAE sucks (1x) and I imagine it'll suck for duplicating odd format discs when I ever give that a try).
Well, I got it today, installed it this afternoon and booted into 98. Drive worked fine. Yea. Reboot into XP and the drive shows up 8x in device manager. No sweat, don't panic, musta missed a jumper. BZZZZZt. Tried that and all kinds of hardware changes, bios patches, aspi patches, nothing helped. Read about a few other folks with similar problems in XP in groups.google but no suggestions.
Argh. So, I searched MS Knowledge base on SCSI and CDROM. 2 Articles, absolutely NO FRIGGEN help. Well, how about just SCSI then. About a billion results returned... well, not quite,but a lot. Saw this one. and I had to think-- if they can fix a SCSI Scanner with the same problem using a reg hack, perhaps I can do the same for the CDROM. Substituted a few steps and added a DWORD from one of the other CDROM keys "OneLun" = 1. Deleted all the CDROM Devices and rebooted and wahla, fixed. Still, it took a few hours of poking around and searching to find that out.
Moral: If your time is worth more than $5/hr don't buy this drive.
But if you are cheap like me (because the wife and kids get priority) and you still buy it, now you can use it in XP too. I know this story is boring as hell and you all could give a rats behind, but, I just had to share because it sucks to spend hours working on a problem and have no one to tell (who knows WTF you are talking about.)
OK, I feel better now.
So, I *know* I should have bought a namebrand unit, but, not for 3-4x the price. I may as well go IDE then. I figured, heck, it's got to be as good as the TEAC was. I searched the net and it seemed like this drive was not a big seller = I found almost nothing. But, no bad news is sometimes good news, right? Not this time. (The only advantage over my 16x teac is the 8x speed boost and this one can read CDRW's, but, its DAE sucks (1x) and I imagine it'll suck for duplicating odd format discs when I ever give that a try).
Well, I got it today, installed it this afternoon and booted into 98. Drive worked fine. Yea. Reboot into XP and the drive shows up 8x in device manager. No sweat, don't panic, musta missed a jumper. BZZZZZt. Tried that and all kinds of hardware changes, bios patches, aspi patches, nothing helped. Read about a few other folks with similar problems in XP in groups.google but no suggestions.
Argh. So, I searched MS Knowledge base on SCSI and CDROM. 2 Articles, absolutely NO FRIGGEN help. Well, how about just SCSI then. About a billion results returned... well, not quite,but a lot. Saw this one. and I had to think-- if they can fix a SCSI Scanner with the same problem using a reg hack, perhaps I can do the same for the CDROM. Substituted a few steps and added a DWORD from one of the other CDROM keys "OneLun" = 1. Deleted all the CDROM Devices and rebooted and wahla, fixed. Still, it took a few hours of poking around and searching to find that out.
Moral: If your time is worth more than $5/hr don't buy this drive.
But if you are cheap like me (because the wife and kids get priority) and you still buy it, now you can use it in XP too. I know this story is boring as hell and you all could give a rats behind, but, I just had to share because it sucks to spend hours working on a problem and have no one to tell (who knows WTF you are talking about.)
OK, I feel better now.
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