Originally Posted By: furry
It's the commercially formatted cds I'm having problems with. ( in other words commercial music cds )
Maybe I might be better to try another drive and just send this one back ?


Are you absolutely sure that it's all commercial CDs? This has a certain smell of the Sony DRM Rootkit debacle.

Here is a list of commercial CDs, which when inserted into a CD ROM drive on a computer, would not allow one to see the CDA, agree to a EULA, which then in turn installs a rootkit on your machine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Compact_Discs_sold_with_XCP

This is a long enough list, that perhaps you are trying one of them?

Also, sorry to ask, but is the USB CD drive truly plug and play, or perhaps there are drivers necessary to properly install and see commercially formatted CDs?