Re: [OT] Broken CD-ROM drive
Quoting Viktor Rosenfeld (rosenfel@informatik.hu-berlin.de):
> 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
Hopefully it could be that you're not setting the jumpers (you don't
mention them), i.e. master/slave.
Hopefully it isn't that you killed the data interface with static
when you were exchanging boards and stuff.
Cheers,
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