From: Brett Leslie Porter <bporter AT rabble DOT uow DOT edu DOT au>
Message-Id: <199708070110.LAA14687@rabble.uow.edu.au>
Subject: Re: CD ROM drives and GCC
To: goober AT mail DOT net (George Kinney)
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 11:10:42 +1000 (EST)
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com (DJGPP)
In-Reply-To: <01bca1cd$a1938ae0$f48033cf@pentium> from George Kinney at "Aug 5, 97 06:19:54 pm"
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> 
> I've had a similar bit of strangeness happen to me. Seems any time I boot
> win95
> with a cd-rom in the tray, it proceeds to spin it up when I search for
> files, 
> or run anything that searches the path. It also has a tendancy to do it if
> I 
> put it anything with an autorun.exe on it. After I kill that prog, it gets
> spun-up
> whenever I try to access it again.  Weirdest thing is that it doesn't do it
> 
> consistantly, so I still haven't nailed it down precisely.
> 
> The only way I've been able to get it stop is to remove the cd, then hit
> start|shutdown|close all progs and login as new user
> 
> It's not in the path, nothing is being loaded from it either. (I wonder if
> maybe
> win95 is blindly cacheing it? Or maybe silently adds it to the path?)
> 
Windows 95 consistently spins the CDROM to check (I think) to see if there
is a different CD in there and if so to run AutoRun or CD Player. I know it
does it on mine but not on a friends computer because her CD driver is
incapable of AutoRun for some reason (an old interface or something). I
didn't even think of this originally: but a thing to try is to go to the
System part of the win95 control panel and somewhere around there is a
CD-ROM section. You can probably disable it's read-ahead optimization to
stop it.
At least it doesn't appear to be a problem with GCC any more :)

Brett