I tried to reply directly, as requested in the post, but that mail
bounced.
Try running the install disk--don't actually *do* anything, but make
like you are installing the O/S (any O/S). Boot off the CD-ROM if you
can.
If that works, then you know it's something with your O/S setup; if that
Usually this happens when a cable goes bad. Don't know why
cables can go bad like that, but that is the first place to try.
73 de KK6WJ
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Subject: [expert] Fwd: cdrom not working: SW or HW fault?
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 08:31:53 -0100
From:
Hello,
I have a pc running Mandrake 6.1, with an ATAPI
cdrom drive NEC CDR-3001. The drive always worked fine
until yesterday, when it quit on me right in the middle of an RPM installation.
Now I get the errors described below 90% of times, no matter which
cdrom I try to read. Even when mount suc
