Re: CDROM with pp created executable will not eject

Kalarness, Bill wrote:

> I've seen a similar thing with rewriteable CD's, using Easy CD Creator
> and Roxio's Direct CD utility.  I think I've also seen this using
> WinXP's write to CD function from explorer.  For me this had nothing to
> do with PAR, but was that the rewriteable CD was being mounted as a
> drive (a la Drive Letter Access) and I'd then have to use a utility
> (like Direct CD to manually eject the CD - otherwise I'd have to reboot
> my system to eject).
>
> I think the CD is being left in a rewritable state and Explorer makes it
> difficult to eject the CD because you may want to write more data to it.
>
> On my XP system, I only use a CD writing utility (Sonic RecordNow) to
> write data to CD's.  I'm not sure if WinXP's HighMat CD utility has
> anything to do with this problem, but on at least one XP system I've
> uninstalled it and a similar problem which went away.
>
> Hope this help,
>
> -Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: the.noonings [mailto:the.noonings@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 4:27 PM
> To: par@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: CDROM with pp created executable will not eject
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have been trying to track down a problem whose core symptom seems to 
> be that, if the cdrom has an executable on it that was created with pp, 
> it will not be ejectable.  This is occurring with Windows XP Pro.
>
> To isolate the problem, I also tried
>
> 1. Making a cdrom with only windows xcopy.exe on it.
> 2. Making a cdrom with only text files on it.
> 3. Putting in a game cdrom, letting it autostart, and exiting the game.
> Everything works fine with the above three.
>
> The file hello.pl  says  print "Hello\n"; exit; and then I do pp -o
> hello.exe hello.pl I believe I tried it with just "exit", too.
>
> I put in the blank cdrom, let windows pop up the cdrom drive window, 
> copy hello.exe to it, and then click on "Write These Files To CD (if 
> memory serves correctly).  I then
> .  Let the freashly created CDROM eject
> .  Close the CDROM door.
> .  Open the CDROM door.
> .  Put in the freashly created CDROM.
> .  Listen to the CDROM spin.
> .  Wait for the CDROM to stop spinning.
> .  Try to eject the CDROM using the CDROM button.
> .  Get annoyed that the CDROM does not eject.
> .  Try to eject the CDROM using the mouse.
> .  Try running the executable (it runs just fine).
> .  Try this and that, and the other thing, too, to eject the stupid
> CDROM. 
> .  Give up.
>
> Having a CDROM with an executable created with pp seems to be the kiss 
> of death such that I need to shut down and reboot to get my cdrom to
> eject.
>
> Can anyone else verify this on an XP machine?  Any one have any ideas 
> why this is happening?  
>
>
>  
YES!  YES!  YES!
I was not using CD-RW, I was using write-once CDROM disks.  Still, as a 
test, I switched to using Nero software to burn the cdrom, and, lo and 
behold, the problem went away.  This has been a behind-the-scenes 
problem for over a month. 

Bill, if you had not responded, I don't know how I would have found out 
the real problem.  Thank you so much for responding.  I was really stuck 
on this.

Thanks again