Wait, that messed things up when I tried it at work (before I figured out that the Slave jumper was needed at all). What else could be wrong….??
Maybe, power needs to be cycled to reset the drive. Slave, 8 bit: Long pause…. “No drives found – initialization aborted”. One more time – Slave, 16 bit: Short pause, Busy light flashes, “One drive found…..” Success! The drive is now accessible under DOS and Windows. Semi-documented software is soooo much fun! 🙂 Email to Dave: The drive works, same spindle motor problem as Pioneer changer. I cleared it for now but changing motor will be a slight pain…. I never did notice any problem with the drawer. Comments: It somewhat amazes me that many CDROM drives still use the same cheap brush type permanent magnet motors as Pioneer and many other CD players. When driven at more than 1X speeds especially, these are prone to metal particle migration or metal whisker formation or whatever – more commonly known as crud buildup. Thus, the same problems that are so common with many brands of CD players are destined to appear on CDROM drives – and the same, at least temporary – cures are effec
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