I did try a music CD but the drive would spin down after 2 attempts to read it and shut off the main motor.Anyways since caddy drives auto eject CDs it can't read, you can always just find a normal CD that is either audio cd or PC formatted and see if it will take it. If it doesn't eject it, then it's reading CDs just fine and just doesn't like the CD-Rs you are using. Note that CD-RW discs certainly will not work. Mine doesn't read the 2 I got. I don't expect any of these old era drives to be able to read them.
