~sob~ Did I ruin it? Can it be? Can my most precious piece of equipment
be forever gone to me??
I own a backpack cdrom, the very most wonderful thing I have ever had the
priviledge to enjoy. with it I can add cdrom to anything that has a
printerport and a drive to access the cdrom drivers.
I don't remembr when it started, but I know I was tired, I fired it up,
grabbing the transformer power cord off the shelf and going. Well, the
damned cdrom wouldn't open. Since the thing uses any old ide cdrom, and
I'd put just such an any old cdrom into it, I presumed the cdrom was giving
me grief and spent much time grieving it. Hmmm, I remember, this was late
at night all this began. Well, I put the thing through much grief and
finally got it to function to my acceptability range.
Then another day, that must be today, I tried again. I don't know, it's
all getting blurred, two cdrom devices later, much swearing, no data
installations, and I discovered that I was using a portable inkjet printer
cord instead of the proper cord for the backpack.
Uhhuh.
The inkjet uses 14V DC, tip negative, the backpack needs 18V DC, but
doesn't say whether tip is negative or positive. I don't know where my
multitester has gone either.
The device did initialize there for a bit earlier tonight, while on the
inkjet cord, but the drive wouldn't open or read. Now the drive opens, but
the device won't initialize.
Does anyone know how I can figure out if it's DOA or what? Damn, these
things are expensive too. I don't think I can replace it.
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