Dselect suddenly unable to read cdrom
I have an official CDROM for Debian which I've used for a good many
months without problems. Suddenly I'm getting numerous errors in reading
the disk; I can't give the exact error messages but they are of the form
"Atapi reset... error on reset.."
After a good deal of this it resumes reading the disk and eventually
reaches the end, but says it has encountered Error 1.
I thought it might be a hardware problem but it reads other cdroms
without difficulty, including other Debian disks. I've cleaned the disk
and the laser window.
This is on a Toshiba Satellite 4000CDT.
I don't see how a cdrom disk could become unreadable unless it were
badly scratched, which this is not.
Can anyone suggest what could be happening? If it is a hardware problem
it's still under warranty, but I could hardly claim this since all other
disks are read properly.
Anthony
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