this thing appened on my box too <_<
but in a little variation:
I've buy an TI89 (Texas Instruments calculator) whit a pc cable for uploading apps and kernel to it,
but
when I tried to insert the software cd my CDRW disappeared from my box,
only after a reboot,I windows could use it...
now it's wrost:
It doesn't read anymore almost all the cd that burned himself
think about it's an hardware problem...
anyway any ideas?