Re: Dead CDROM?

In message <1127906728.553283.190010@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
"Andrew Wickham" <ajw99uk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A CDROM drive which correctly reports itself under cdfs:cddevices
> (using CDFSSoftATAPI in 3.7) but gives "Drive empty" errors with
> several different CDs seems dead. There is no sound of the CD spinning
> up when inserted. I suspect the firmware is okay but the mechanism
> failed.
>
> Do I junk it, or it there something I've overlooked?
>
> Drive is a Panasonic 24x as slave to a Conner 1.2MB on the m/b IDE in
> an SARPC.
>
> TIA,
> Andrew
>

I had very similar symptoms a while back - after nearly condemming
the drive I was looking in boot for something else and noticed a module
had been updated. Putting it back to an earlier version sorted the
problem out.

I can't just remember the names at the moment though, and it's been
a long day!

Richard
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