webmedic....this was a 24x Panasonic CR-585-B manufactured for
Hewlett Packard in November of 1997. I got it at a close-out
house on the net about a year ago as new merchandise. Guess it
wasn't such a good buy after all. :-(
Alan
webmedic wrote:
>
> this mostly occurs with older cdroms and for some reason with kenwood
> true speed cdroms.
>
> Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> >
> > Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> > [snip]
> > >
> > > Finally I attempted an Air (7.0) install on my wife's machine
> > > over her Venus (6.0) installation. It failed at the point of
> > > initializing the cdrom. I made a boot disc to use the text
> > > install and it failed too, at initializing the cdrom. I then
> > > installed Helios (6.1) on that machine (to see if it would have
> > > any problems) without a hitch.
> > >
> > [snip]
> >
> > This is an update on the above problem. I've successfully
> > installed Air (7.0) on the above machine by swapping out the
> > cdrom drive for another. After the drive change the
> > installation went flawlessly. I guess that the drive was not
> > reading the cd very well and at a certain point the read
> > problems would crash the install. I've seen this behavior
> > before, but still don't understand why it doesn't generate an
> > error message?
> >
> > Alan
