Combo drive eject problem

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GZheng12 · #1 Post by **GZheng12** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 9:34 am

I recently bought a T42 2378 FVU. Last night after watching DVD for 2 hours, I pressed the eject button many times but the drive did not respond, after rebooting the PC, everything is OK. I wonder is anyone else experiencing the same problem? Thanks.

Starmanx · #2 Post by **Starmanx** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 9:39 am

part number of teh dvd drive?
you might need firmware update...

#3 Post by **carbon_unit** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:34 pm

Some combo drives are a little flakey in that area. I know the ujda 7** series drives I have are.

jaxf250 · #4 Post by **jaxf250** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:56 pm

Mine has done this a couple times now... annoying but the paperclip still works

I have not checked for any firmware updates, but it'd be nice if this freeze was resolved....

bevross · #5 Post by **bevross** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:16 pm

GZheng12 wrote:I recently bought a T42 2378 FVU. Last night after watching DVD for 2 hours, I pressed the eject button many times but the drive did not respond, after rebooting the PC, everything is OK. I wonder is anyone else experiencing the same problem? Thanks.

Yeah, this happened to me with my new 23736vu. Called IBM and they told me to reboot. I did the firmware update just yesterday so I can't say whether it's fixed (the summary of changes only said "(Fix) Version 1.72 for UJDA755y (KME/PCC) ."

admsteiner · #6 Post by **admsteiner** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:36 pm

I had the same problem after a few months with my drive (also a DVD-ROM/CDRW on a 2378-FVU). I called up IBM and they sent me a new drive as a replacement.

--Adam

Uncletoad · #7 Post by **Uncletoad** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:43 pm

Ditto. Had the same problem. IBM had me download a bios update, and a "CD Easy Eject" utility and it solved the problem.

jaxf250 · #8 Post by **jaxf250** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 5:20 pm

I see a new firmware update on the IBM site that is VERY recent (11/19):

Release 8
Eight diskette image files

* (Fix) Version 1.72 for UJDA755y (KME/PCC)
* (Fix) Version 1.22 for UJDA755z (KME/PCC)

But.......... I only see FDD image files? What's with that? How does one get a set of files that work without a floppy drive being required? I'm new to the IBM d/l site, so if I need to rtfm I apologize, but I cannot find a non-FDD update tool on their site.... TIA for any pointers.

^^^^^^^^^___________ Point of clarification for the above:

The UJDA755 device mentioned in the info. above is the CD-RW/DVDROM combo unit. If you have the DVD-RAM Multiburner unit (UJ812) you want to see the IBM page here:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.ws ... us&lang=en

bevross · #9 Post by **bevross** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 5:55 pm

jaxf250 wrote:I see a new firmware update on the IBM site that is VERY recent (11/19) ...But.......... I only see FDD image files?.

I figured out how to do some of the firmware updates using a USB flash drive but this one, while possible (there's a prior post about it), made me just go out & buy a USB floppy drive. Got tired of the machinations. Worked rather simply after that. I got the "Sony 2X External USB Floppy Drive - MPF88E/UA/181" with amazon.com having the best price when I checked. Rather slow & noisy but it worked!

GZheng12 · #10 Post by **GZheng12** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 11:03 pm

My combo drive's ID is "HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4242N". I also checked the new firmware update, there is no one from 8 options fit my combo's ID.

GZheng12 · #11 Post by **GZheng12** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 11:13 pm

This package provides firmware for the following DVD/CD-RW drives:

Model (Manufacturer) Diskette image filename
SD-R2002 (TOSHIBA) FWDR1801
DW-28E (TEAC) FWDR1801
DW-225 (TEAC) FWDR1801
UJDA720 (KME/PCC) FWDR1802
UJDA740 (KME/PCC) FWDR1803
UJDA745 (KME/PCC) FWDR1804
| UJDA755y (KME/PCC) FWDR1805
| UJDA755z (KME/PCC) FWDR1806
GCC-4160N (HLDS) FWDR1807
GCC-4240N (HLDS) FWDR1807
GCC-4240N (HLDS) FWDR1808
GCC-4241N (HLDS) FWDR1808

w0qj · #12 Post by **w0qj** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 11:32 pm

yeah, my 2 week old T42 (2373K5H) also have this flaky CDRW refusing to eject when pressing the blue eject button...

i've tried 1 workaround that SEEMS ok so far--use the Keyboard Customizer Utility to manually assign a keyboard hotkey to eject the CDRW tray...

seems to work well--but then again, i've only used this workaround for 1 week...

kevinlwu · #13 Post by **kevinlwu** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 11:46 am

Oddly enough, I was fed up with this issue and was going to IBM but i found out if a CD rejected to eject when pushing the button I right clicked the drive in My Computer and selected the "Use with DLA" item(which is something with IBM RecordNow - Sonic Software that is bundled with the computer) after i select it the drive becomes ejectable. I guess this may be a workaround, let me know if its just me or if it works for you.

- Kevin

Sasha · #14 Post by **Sasha** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 11:59 am

Hi GZheng12

I had the same drive and experienced the same problems. Check out this thread...

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=7643

I called up IBM support, and they sent me a replacement....

GZheng12 · #15 Post by **GZheng12** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 5:06 pm

I finally fixed this problem rather than asking for a replacement drive. I just installed a small software called CD Eject Tool 2.6.
(http://www.topshareware.com/CD-Eject-To ... -10436.htm)

Everytime I click the small CD icon in my system tray to eject CD-rom and it never fails. I believe the original problem is caused by the firmware. It does not seem hardware problem.

Welcome your ideas about this issue.

Wildhorse · #16 Post by **Wildhorse** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:01 pm

I know it is a software issue.
I had this problem, so i just formatted and put my own version of XP Pro on my pc using the OEM key on the bottom of the computer and it worked fine ever since.

denthorq · #17 Post by **denthorq** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:18 pm

Our T42 have same problem. Software eject works but NOT pressing the eject button.

#18 Post by **RonS** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:35 pm

The fix is easy. Go to Add/Remove programs and uninstall DLA.

That's it. Problem solved.

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