On Wednesday 22 October 2003 09:14 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Tuesday 21 October 2003 08:29 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > > Wondering if anyone has run into this, I put a brand new (cheap $19.95 > > US) LG CDROM in the computer, a Gigabyte MB with Athlon 2000 cpu and DDR > > ram, and as soon as Mandrake harddrake detects it the drive light goes > > steady on and the drive will not work. At next boot up no light and no > > response the drive is dead. Took it back for exchange three times and > > same results. So I stick the old 24X sony CDROM back in and it works > > fine. I have no idea what is going on. The power supply is rock solid. > > Could there be a mobo problem? Any ideas? > > Dennis: > There have been some reports on the club Forums about 9.2 killing LG drives > and there is also some discussion at cooker. Take a look at the second > posting here: > http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Splatt_Forum&file=v >iewtopic&topic=12989&forum=10 -- cmg Thanks, Carroll, it appears that the bottom line is I have fried $40 worth of drives, my cost, and $60 worth of the dealers drives because of a nasty bug in 9.2. Some of the talk is about running 700mb cds in the drive but it only specs for 650mb. I don't think that is the problem because I installed 9.1 on these drives and they were 700mb. Anyway, I am watching to see what drives actually will work and not get fried. Thanks for the info. Makes me feel not so stupid. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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