From: "Linux Dev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 10:05 AM
> Which CD ROM Drive is recommended to be used with a > RedHat Linux 7.3 box ? Any Working CD-Rom drive should do. > Currently, I have a Creative 52x CD-Rom! > Suddenly the "creative 52x CD-Rom" is ejecting all my CDs > (software or data). > I am facing regular lock ups ... system crashes! :-(( Actually when you buy a CD-Rom u got to be lucky so that you get a long life out of it, there are other factors which influence the longevity of your CR-Rom drives the main factors are you got to have a good power supply with good earthing as small leakage currents for long periods of time can damage your HDD CDROM etc, also CD-ROM's should be best used in a parallel to your desk, I have seen people put CD into the drive tilt the cabinet and read the CD, this hugely damages the optical reader in the drive. And coming back to your problem before buying or exchanging from u r dealer or Bartering fom a friend, try things like, making your CD-ROM as Secondary Master, interchange your cables and what all permutations and combinations you can try, bcoz many times you cannot come to a definite conclusion or isolate the problem, but my guess is your CD-ROM drive life is coming near to the end, Anyway wish you good luck for u r CD ROM drive. -- Manjunath ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
