I just went throught the same problem with the same Philips CDRW. The Win98 
driver does not work. You need to upgrade to ME or some more recent CD 
driver.

www.roxio.com also has an update for ez cd creator.

For slower machines you need to eliminate all the programs running in the 
background. One way to do this is to press Control-Alt-Delete and end each 
task one at a time. Just keep explorer running. A write up of the issue is 
here; http://www.roxio.com/en/support/cdrwin/winbufu.html They also have a 
nice Win98 troubleshooting page (I copied it but don't have the URL) that 
describes running MSCONFIG.

Now the CDRW works very nicely but I sure made a lot of coasters.

But mostlyl, Win 98 did not have the drivers needed, where ME does.

-----Original Message-----
From:	Troy.A Johnson [SMTP:troy.johnson at health.state.mn.us]
Sent:	Thursday, August 16, 2001 10:25 AM
To:	tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject:	[TCLUG] [OFF-TOPIC][WAY] CD-RW Drive Provides Much Frustration 
UnderWin98 & Win2K

Greetings TCLUGers who don't mind reading about
  Win* problems,

I imagine I would also have a problem under Linux,
but I am really writing this because I am really
frustrated with a problem I am having installling
a CD-RW drive in my parent's computer. I suspect
the computer as the problem, and not the drives,
but I wanted to know if anyone has seen anything
like this before, and possibly suggest a solution.

The computer:
----------------------
EPOX MVP3xxx mainboard (VIA chipset)
K6-2 300MHz processor
384MB PC100 SDRAM
Fujisu 6GB HDD (primary master)
Toshiba 24x CDROM (secondary master)

The CD-RW drives I've tried:
---------------------------------------------
Philips 8x4x32 (cheapo best buy)
Teac 8x8x32 (gns)

I have tried both drives as secondary slaves
and the Teac drive as a primary slave. I will
try the Teac drive as a secondary master (all
by itself), but I don't have much hope for that
to work any better.

The problem (for both drives):
---------------------------------------------
The drive is recognized by the BIOS, and
Win98 installs a driver for it. Win98 seems
to think the drive is a CD-RW (the "properties"
suggest it anyway), but the "Easy CD Creator"
software has other ideas (thinks it can write, but
only at "1x").

When a blank CDR is put into the CD-RW drive,
the computer gets really busy. It is reading the
CD-RW and reading the HDD and is slow about
updating at least the CD writing software window,
and sometimes the whole screen, but the mouse
seems unaffected. When the blank CDR is
ejected the activity dies down slowly and the
system returns to "normal". Overall, system
performance is negatively affected while the
drive is installed, but not by an excessive amount.

I installed the Philips drive and assumed the
problem was with it when it didn't work. Now
that the Teac drive is exhibiting the exact same
behavior I suspect the computer, which seems
wierd to me because the computer is pretty
normal when the CD-RW is not installed. :-(
I plan to install the Philips drive in another
computer to test this theory tonight.

Any hints? Am I missing the obvious?

Thank you for reading,

Troy


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