Re: CD tray won't stay closed

2010-02-25 Thread Bob Tracy 
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 09:22:28PM +0100, Hartwig Atrops wrote:
> 
> I installed Lenny on my PWS500au a while agao - without CD drive trouble.
> 
> On Thursday 25 February 2010 20:46, Bob Tracy wrote:
> > (...)
> >
> > Found a Toshiba IDE CD-RW drive for $9 that I'll try this evening.  If
> > the problem persists with the new drive, I'll at least know it's some
> > kind of weird Linux+controller issue.  If that's the case, anyone got an
> > idea how I might work around it?  (I'll provide the controller error
> > messages from "syslog" if the problem persists with the new drive.)
> 
> I used only the first CD, I did the rest via ftp.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>Hartwig

Well, as it turns out, the Toshiba SW-252S I found is either defective,
or SRM cares entirely too much about what kind of CD-ROM device is
attached to the IDE controller :-(.  When I powered-up the machine with
the new drive, the expected hex digits (diagnostics?) never showed up at
the top of the screen: no SRM prompt, nothing.

So, I tore apart the old CD-ROM drive, repaired the broken tray
mechanism gear (it was the one attached to the motor shaft), and am
trying another Lenny installation as I type this.  When I reach the
point where "apt" offers to scan the other two CDs in the installation
set, I'll decline this time and see what happens...

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   |   slitting throats."   -- H.L. Mencken



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Re: CD tray won't stay closed

2010-02-25 Thread Hartwig Atrops 
Hi.

Hmm.

I installed Lenny on my PWS500au a while agao - without CD drive trouble.

On Thursday 25 February 2010 20:46, Bob Tracy wrote:
> I encountered an unexpected "unpleasantness" last night while trying to
> install Lenny on my Miata (PWS 433au).  When the installer got to the
> part where "apt" offers to scan all the installation media, I pressed
> the button on the CD-ROM drive to eject the first CD, replaced it with
> the second CD, pressed the button to close the tray, and the #...@! tray
> would *not* stay closed.
>
> At that point, the installation process was unrecoverable, and I had to
> power-cycle the machine to restore sanity.  In my frustration, I managed
> to physically break the tray loading mechanism (one of the gears) when
> the scenario repeated itself.  Had the drive survived the second
> installation attempt, the next thing I was going to try was to "pass" on
> having "apt" scan the other CDs.
>
> Found a Toshiba IDE CD-RW drive for $9 that I'll try this evening.  If
> the problem persists with the new drive, I'll at least know it's some
> kind of weird Linux+controller issue.  If that's the case, anyone got an
> idea how I might work around it?  (I'll provide the controller error
> messages from "syslog" if the problem persists with the new drive.)

I used only the first CD, I did the rest via ftp.

Regards,

   Hartwig


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