On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 03:46:44PM +0000, John Foster wrote: > I have recently noticed that my Cd-Rom drive seems to be skipping. I > noticed it while running windows one day but it seemed to clear up when > I went back to Linux. Now it is doing the same thing in linux. This > happens when playing music. I have not noticed any problems in reading > other CD's. Is there an application to test the read capability of this > with Linux. It is about 3 years old and should not be crapping out as it > is only rarely used. Thanks!
When's the last time you cleaned the lens of that drive? If it's been a while that could be all that needs done. Those lenses have a tendancy to collect grunge even if they are rarely used - we've had similar problems here at home with a number of different drives, CD and others. Ran a cleaning cycle and the drive started working a lot better. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" ICQ# 12934898 | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E | Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.
