From: "Sander Pool" <dutchguy DOT removethis AT nospam DOT pacbell DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: call to 'open' causes all sleeping drives to awaken!
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:44:25 -0800
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Win2K seems to do the same thing when I open the 'my computer' folder in
explorer. It spins up the CDROM but leaves HDs alone till I explicitly open
them.

    Sander

"Richard Thomas Harrison" <void AT black-hole DOT invalid> wrote in message
news:ed_4a.4490$Vx2 DOT 408580 AT wards...

> One thing I find is that XP keeps waking up my CDROMS just to check
> something is there. What's the whole point of Autorun then ? I have to
keep
> a CD in both of the drives otherwise XP locks up the system for about 15
> seconds and then returns control for about 10 seconds before locking up
> again. Sigh... I gonna have to get around to re-installing Linux. ;^)