Re: CDROM death

[Joost Kooij <jkooij@best.ms.philips.com>]

Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Carl Flippin wrote:
> 
> > Every time I try to access my cdrom under any distribution of Linux,
> > the entire system goes into limbo. My drive is connected to a PAS 16
> > and it appears that autoprobe is finding it since the light on the
> > drive flashes. The drive is a Toshiba 2x. Has anyone heard of this
> > problem before? Do I need to get a new CDROM drive?
> 
> I would strongly recommend that you compile the appropriate non-IDE driver
> into your kernel and avoid autoprobing.  I had many problems with
> autoprobing a Creative Labs CD-ROM.

My matshushita cdrom got really fried after being probed as a mitsumi.
After that, many parts in the computer started to warm up dangerously
and I took the drive out before it could do any more damage.


Joost


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