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Can someone tell me why..when I cannot eject a CD and press Fn + F9,or use the Utility icon on the toolbar, the Utility tells me there is nothing to eject when there is? I always have to use my paperclip thingy to get the drive open.

Thanks,
San

When I got my T42s (2373-K5H) that came factory pre-installed with Win'XP-Pro SP2, I had the same problem.

Phoned IBM technical support, and they suggested me to uniinstall this:
Drive letter access (DLA)


I never had this problem ever since...

w0qj,

Thank you for your reply, but where do I go to do this. I have only had my laptop a little over a year and am not familiar with all the functions of it. I have the T42 2379DXU, also with the WinXP-Pro SP2 installed, so maybe that is the problem.

But is it the reason for why the drive will not open also, or just the reason the Easyeject Utility will not respond?


thanks for your time,
san

As I understand it there was a problem with the DLA software and some optical drives' firmware, (not all). There is a patch which solves this problem:
http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.ws ... MIGR-40970

andyP,

I went to the site and tried to download one of the two download choices and nothing happened; I tried the other and the same thing . I went to My Computer to make sure of what file I had, but there were only two download choices, and neither worked. Another webpage suggested that the downloads were 'busy' to try another time'. Does that sound right?

My DLA version number is 4.95. I don't know what to do next.

Thanks,
San

The DLA program if i'm not mistaken does this:
The ability to convert your CD-RW into a pseudo-hard drive where you can drag-and-drop files into and from the CD-RW, in a windows-folder-tree fashion.
But I've had bad experience where data corruption was common, to the point that the entire disk's contents was lost a vew times (fortunately it was just test data).


Anyways, if you don't need DLA, then you can uninstall it from:
[Control_Panel]>>[Add_Remove_Programs] and look for the DLA program there.

Good luck!

I would like to thank everyone that helped me with this problem. I uninstalled the DLA program and now I have no problem with the drive opening with a disc in it.

Thanks again,
San