well, so far having a little bit of trouble finding the firmware update for the cd drives. yamaha's site isn't very helpful, and having trouble finding the 'raite' dvd-rom files... just sale ads through google.
last night it acted up again. still saw the drives, but it didn't know that the dvd drive was a dvd, and it wouldn't recognize any discs until i rebooted and things were o.k. funny thing is though... all my ide devices are on seperate channels (motherboard ide + extra ata/100 card). i wonder if maybe that card is having troubles... although i never have trouble with any hard drives attached to it... ? hrm... i'll keep searching