* Jose A Carrasco (2003-06-20 12:27 +0200)
> I have just installed Gentoo Linux under a Pentium 3 machine. Everything has
> worked fine and as presented in the installation guide.
> After I have the base system running, I enter as root and mount the CD with
> the command mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom. At that moment the cd stops
> working. It seems to break and it is definitely broken.

> I have broken 3 CD readers this way!!!!! The CDs work until that moment
> since I install them and I am able to reboot the machine from them (and work
> this way) so I have discarded a harware problem since I measure good
> voltages for the power supply and the rest of the equipment woks ok.

> Could the Gentoo kernel with a bad configuration destroy my CD?

Do you have hdparm settings[1] for your cdrom? I broke two drives last
weekend with the "safe performance-enhancing options"[2] from the
"1.4_rc4 Installation Instructions"[3].

Thorsten

[1] /etc/conf.d/hdparm
[2] -d1 -A1 -m16 -u1 -a64 -M128
[3] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml
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