I am working on a computer that is seeing the cd rom, but will not read any disks.
I have tried...
Using a different drive
Booting to dos from a floppy
using different IDE channels
Connecting as master or slave
Reseting cmos
I am ready to chalk this up to a faulty IDE channel. Please prove me wrong.
Later
if the drive works on a different ide channel the i expect you're right.
I can't think what else you could try
sorry
fissy
Did you check the IRQ status, or primary or secondary slave
Everything is fine in the device manager. Anyone else?
You have this CD-ROM how much the time?
Go to my computer, right click, go to properties. Then go to the hardware tab, then device manager. Go to the cd drive section, and right click. Scan for hardware changes. If your CD drive still does not read, go back to device manager, and this time, double click on the CD drive you are having problems with. The description should tell you whether the drive works or not. If the drive has an unrecognizable
problem, use a CD drive head cleaner and clean the lens. If the drive still doesn't work then its a serious, and unsolvable problem, and you'll need to replace the drive! 
If it was just an issue of replacing this drive that would be fine, I have a lot of extras sitting around (repair is my business), the fact is that I have replaced it with a number of known working drives to no avail. Beyond that, the device manager is clean with no problems. The drive itself is seen by both the computer and the bios. I even booted to a dos floppy and loaded aspi drivers to see if i could read from there and no luck with any drive i tried. Anyone else have an idea? If not it is cool, I think I will have to recommend to my client a new motherboard or pci ide card. Anyone know where I could procure an ide card cheap for testing purposes?
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