Rainer replied,
> does this happen with any CD? Or only with this newly purchased ones? > Do you have another drive handy for testing the readability of the discs? All of the CD's, even the one's i've already installed. And it doesn't cooperate under drdos, either, though I have no idea whether my drdos installationis in good shape or not. I think i tampered with the silly config files several times. hmm, i just found this in the log: Nov 18 19:00:10 eyry kernel: hdc : tray open Nov 18 19:00:10 eyry kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00, sector 0 Nov 18 19:00:10 eyry kernel: FAT bread failed Nov 18 19:00:10 eyry kernel: hdc : tray open or drive not ready Nov 18 19:00:15 eyry last message repeated 7 times Nov 18 19:00:15 eyry kernel: hdc : tray open Nov 18 19:00:15 eyry kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00, sector 64 Nov 18 19:00:15 eyry kernel: isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 16:00 iso_blknu m 16 block 32 Nov 18 19:00:15 eyry kernel: hdc : tray open or drive not ready This is simply not correct; the thing is closed with a cd in it. ALso, I get messages on boot that daemon.log:Nov 17 18:05:03 eyry modprobe: can't locate module block-major-11 daemon.log:Nov 18 12:26:12 eyry modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5 There's something vaguely familiar about all this . . . --
