on Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 11:09:01PM +0100, Viktor Rosenfeld (rosenfel@informatik.hu-berlin.de) wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > Can you read from the CDR from another OS? Can you swap the drive to a > > different system? Have you checked all cables carefully? I mention the > > last because I had a dead CDR (though it wasn't registering on boot > > either) which turned out to have a disconnected IDE cable.... > > Well, I do have a Windows system on that machine, but I haven't yet > tried to read the CD with it. (I simply don't use Windows anymore, can > you imagine? :) > > Anyway, considering that > - I can't boot from CDs anymore using that drive (it works with the same > BIOS settings and CD, but with another drive) > - it worked before I used this machine to bootstrap another one > (exchanging boards, hard disks, and stuff) > - everything works fine, when I put in another CD-ROM drive > - it won't work, when I put this drive on the primary IDE controller or > connect it to another board > I'm pretty sure that it's the drive that's broken. > > So any ideas? As I said -- try HW and OS configurations until you've ruled out alternatives. That's work you'll have to do. You *have* checked cables? Broken, loose, or dirty connectors are not going to help you much. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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