On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 00:07:50 -0300 "Angus Auld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings, I had something strange occur today > as I was doing some downloading with Apollon > on my Mandrake10 system. > Suddenly my cd burner drive spun up for no reason. > I didn't have a cd in the drive, and wasn't doing > anything with the drive at all. My system seemed to be > responding normally otherwise, so I rebooted, and > things seem OK now. > > What could have caused the glitch? My cdrw crapping out on me? It's an LG GCE-8525B, > and is only a few months old. > > Anyone ever note this sort of thing, or have any ideas on it? > Many TIA's for your time. > Regards. > > --Angus > >***************** Yes. In my case it was the power supply wires to the cdrom. When moving them the power to the cdrom went on and of. Probably the slight vibration of the box making the connection on/off. Used another supply plug and to date not happened again. HTH -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning
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