Hello,
It definitely was an HW fault, there was a piece of the PCB burned...
Anyways, I just bought a new one and used it to install LM 7.1
Thanks a lot to everybody who answered, especially Ted.
Ciao,
Marco
>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
>
>
>
>---------- Forwarded Message ----------
>Subject: [expert] Fwd: cdrom not working: SW or HW fault?
>Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 08:31:53 -0100
>From: Marco Fioretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
>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 succeeds, I just get the top directory
>listing, but trying to cat some files, or open it via kfm times out, takes
a
>loooong time, or just leaves me with a blank
>
>The reason I'm posting this is: could it be some SW/configuration fault (like
>some file I canceled by mistake/something which is looped on itself..)? How
>could I find out?
>
>I'd really hate to have to fetch money for a new drive right now....
>Any help is really appreciated,
>
> Marco
>
>I I try to open it by clicking on the KDE icon, I get:
>KFM error Could not mount
>Error log:
>file:/dev/cdrom%3A%20Input/output%20error%0Amoun...ou%20must%20specify%20the%20filesystem%20type%0A
>
>If I try from the console, as root, I get:
>
>[root@polaris marco]# m /etc/fstab
>/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
>/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
>/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
>sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide
0 0
>/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto
>user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro
0 0
>none /proc proc defaults 0 0
>none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
>[
>[root@polaris marco]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom/
>mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
> or too many mounted file systems
>[root@polaris marco]# umount /mnt/cdrom/
>umount: /mnt/cdrom/: not mounted
>
>In both cases the led blinks a few times and then dies, and no noise
>whatsoever
>comes from the drive
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>
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