The drive itself could be bad. David
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Martin N" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 3:34 AM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] X61 cant boot from USB CDrom drive Thanks Dave and Alex it seems to be sorted now. I tried another external dvd rom and it worked straight off leaving me perplexed. So it could be down to a dodgy cable,flakey booting on the x61? or some other weird thing to do with the orig dvd rom which originally worked. Off to see if i can set it up with just the system update downloading the drivers itself. Martin N At 01:49 27/04/2012, you wrote: >Most external CD readers can read off a single USB cable, even if they >require a paired cable for power for writing. However, the suggestion to >try another port is a good one. If it doesn't work on that port, I would >also try it on another computer (to see if the drive has failed), and would >also try some other USB device on the laptop (we keep a USB floppy drive >around, it is great for testing ports). > >David > > > >-------------------------------------------------- >From: "Alex Austin" <[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 1:08 PM >To: "Martin N" <[email protected]> >Cc: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] X61 cant boot from USB CDrom drive > >Is your CDROM drive powered by itself, or does it use USB power? If USB >power, does it have a double cable that goes into two ports? If not, have >you tried a different USB port in case the polyfuse on the one you were on >opened? Running MorphOS v2.6 (Nov 2010) on Mac Mini, Moderator of MiniDisc,amithlonopen,bwfc Yahoogroups _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
