Hi all - I have a little bit of an odd situation I was hoping somebody
might be able to shed some light on.
Somebody has asked me to take a machine with a 300+GB hard drive, and
install 5 or 6 different distributions of linux on it for them. The
idea is that they want to play with the different
Do you think it could be drive specific? Either the drive or the media
are out of spec? Can the drive really read the problem CDs?
dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/null count=200
This should report an error if there is a problem reading the media. If
this works, then the CD is getting read and I do not
On Friday 16 September 2005 10:09 am, Cole Tuininga wrote:
I'm reasonably certain that both CDs are good - I used them just a
couple days ago.
Long shot:
I had a fan stop that I didn't notice. The lasers in two CDROMs
overheated leading to deteriorating output. The behavior was similar
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 10:59 -0400, Jim Kuzdrall wrote:
Long shot:
I had a fan stop that I didn't notice. The lasers in two CDROMs
overheated leading to deteriorating output. The behavior was similar
to what you describe. Some CD would read, others would not, but all
check good on
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 10:09 -0400, Cole Tuininga wrote:
Hi all - I have a little bit of an odd situation I was hoping somebody
might be able to shed some light on.
Somebody has asked me to take a machine with a 300+GB hard drive, and
install 5 or 6 different distributions of linux on it for
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 12:00 -0400, Frank DiPrete wrote:
I've used this to install fedora on a machine with a non bootable scsi
cdrom drive. works like a charm.
I believe it ... unfortunately this machine has no floppy drive. 8)
--
I have tact. I just choose not to use it.
-Ben Scott
Cole
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 12:00 -0400, Cole Tuininga wrote:
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 12:00 -0400, Frank DiPrete wrote:
I've used this to install fedora on a machine with a non bootable scsi
cdrom drive. works like a charm.
I believe it ... unfortunately this machine has no floppy drive. 8)
Do you think it could be drive specific? Either the drive or the media
are out of spec? Can the drive really read the problem CDs?
dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/null count=200
This should report an error if there is a problem reading the media. If
this works, then the CD is getting read and I do not
