On 9 Oct 2002, James Sparenberg wrote: > Andy, > > The only thing I can imagine it to be is that the cd reader is > getting old and starting to wear. This would me that the laser is quite > tracking right all of the time. When it's a little bit off... it can't > read correctly. I've got one just like that in my trash can right now. > I've just come across this same error on my ECS K7S5A based system. The CDROM would sometimes read, sometimes not. I thought it was the drive itself so switched that out to another unit. The error went away until a couple reboots later. After a lot of trouble shooting I determined that the secondary IDE interface was not working relably. After plugging everything into a PCI based IDE adapter (Promise Ultra 133TX2) it has been working fine for the past week.
> > > On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 05:22, Andy Weller wrote: > > Does anyone know of any CD-ROM read errors. It seems very temperamental > > to me. I have two identical CD's with a 3rd party application on and > > depending on what mood the PC is in, depends on whether it will read the > > CD's or not!?! > > > > It doesn't matter if I 'su' or 'su -' to root, the problems are still > > there. Sometimes I get lucky and it will install nearly all of my > > application, other times it won't do anything, and I am back to square > > one...! > > > > I'm really not too sure what I am doing wrong. These CD's have worked > > perfectly before in 8.2, 8.1, 8.0 & 7.2. I have even tried to clean the > > laser. The symtoms in my case were: Attempts to mount the CD would return "Bad FS type" errors. Logs would should lots of "Atapi resets" PC BIOS would sometimes not recognize the device (this tipped me off).
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