John Aldrich wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Jim Travnick wrote:
> > I have just about the same problem with my Acer 50x it will install
> > linux fine but than when im in linux it will not see any medium not
> > even the linux CD that i used to install or music CDs all of which are
> > store bought. CDrom is brand new. replace it with my creative 48x make
> > no changes and it works fine.
> >
> Some CD drives are like that. I had one drive (off-brand) which would
> INSTALL Diablo2 just fine, but when I went to try to PLAY it, it
> wouldn't work, it kept asking for my INSTALL CD, even though that CD
> was in the drive. I took it back to where I got it and they said
> there were known problems with that drive and Diablo, with reading
> the encryption key or whatever off the CD, but the Creative Labs CD I
> replaced it with works just fine.
>
> To make a long story shorter, I suspect that the CD drive doesn't
> meet the latest specs. See if you can find a BIOS update for the CD
> drive, and if not, see if you can take it back to where you got it
> and exchange it for something like a CL drive.
> John
>
>
I would but im trying to get away from creative labs CD drives as I had one
that went bad and had to send the next two they sent me back as they where
bad out of the box. Im very unhappy with there support. Plus not sure about
this but I think creative labs is no longer making CD drives cant seem to
find them in the stores here anymore.
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