recognise external scsi CDRW without reboot

[Jonno]

Hiya

I have a Yamaha CDRW on scsi, which works with no
conflicts. However, I have to either turn on the writer
before I boot; or most annoyingly, reboot the system when
I wish to use it (Occassional use + noisy fan) as windows
xp (Professional) does not recognise the device is there
when I power it on. It does however recognise other
devices eg my USB pen-stick.

I did not have this problem with win98, which also
retained the drive letter - whether the device was
switched on or not.

I burn cd's on an irregular basis and do not wish to have
a noisy drive running CD constantly.

Technical help appreciated - I have a very good knowledge
of pc's and Microsoft operating systems in general. I
think this is a scsi recognition problem.

Jonno

[Mark S.]

"Jonno" > wrote in message
...
> Hiya
>
> I have a Yamaha CDRW on scsi, which works with no
> conflicts. However, I have to either turn on the writer
> before I boot; or most annoyingly, reboot the system when
> I wish to use it (Occassional use + noisy fan) as windows
> xp (Professional) does not recognise the device is there
> when I power it on. It does however recognise other
> devices eg my USB pen-stick.
>
>
> Jonno

I have the same make scsi burner. Most of the burning programs i use
recognize the Yamaha if I turn it on after the OS has booted if I do the
following: Go to Device Manager in Control Panel - System. Right click on
the dvd/cd-Rom Drives line and select Scan for Hardware changes. This then
rescans the scsi bus and detects the drive.

This is sufficient for MOST but not all of the programs I use. Notable,
CDRWin requires a reboot. Nero does not require a reboot.

MarkS