i apologise, i misunderstood that the drive was relatively new. having seen
it i now know that there is no way to get it to power up on machine boot
since there is no 'sleep' mode, only a hard on/off switch for the power.
charl


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| hi,
| a colleague has an external cd-rom drive that he only uses
| occasionally. when he does decide to use it, he has to turn the pc
| off, turn the drive on and then boot the pc.
| is there a way to make the external drive power up on booting the pc
| every time? (a bios setting or something)? it's a windows nt box and a
| yamaha external cd-rom if that makes any difference.
| thanks for any help
| charl