Re: 7CD changer takes forever to cache dirs

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From: Jerold Schulman (Jerry_at_jsiinc.com)
Date: 09/01/04


Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 08:54:47 -0400

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 01:11:02 -0700, "dwyersm" <dwyersm@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>I have a Mountain 7 cdrom changer scsi connected to win2k pro. whenever I
>boot the OS takes forever to load as the changer appears to be reading every
>CDROM in it and doing whatever. Whenever I open My Computer or do any
>windowing with file and directories within it, the changer is always active
>(apparently i assume) reading every cdrom and doing whatever it and the OS
>have to do. It drives me nuts to the extent thats its a no go, and now I
>leave it switched off. Is there any way of speeding this process up, or
>eliminating it, or only reading a CDROM when the OS is pointed to a cdrom?
>Regards
>Shane M Dwyer
>Brisbane Australia

See tip 73 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com
As this was written for Windows NT, use
tip 324 to set the Start Value Name at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdaudio
to 3.

Shutdown and restart.

Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com



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