Hi,
This is not a very ordinary CDRom I must say!
The comp is a 486, I have Windows 95 on it. The CDRom is a Matshita CR-563, it connects to a Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 sound card on an MKE bus. Took me some digging to figure this one out! My friend had this CDRom and he was trying to get it running on an IDE bus!! No way!!
Windows 95 installed the sound card, there is no conflicts, no problems whatsoever in the hardware manager window. The CDRom is detected in the explorer and is seen in the hardware manager. All sounds totally normal, except the small point that it will not read any CDs put into it. I tried music CDs (not home burnt), burnt CDs, anything, it does not see it.
If anyone has had to deal with this and got it going, let me know, I am sure this is a simple thing now that all is detected.

Cheers:beer:

It may just be faulty - a very old drive by now.

Right, I always suspect this when I have tried everything else! But, yes,it sure is old. When I first figured it out, I was using DOS, and I used an install program I found that install the card. I used that and I was able to read from it in DOS. Then I wiped out the HDD, and I was never successful at getting the thing to work again. The funny thing is, windows sees it, and when I right click on it, using the menu eject, it works, so there is communication to the device. But no reading.