Re: CD-ROM read fails. Recovery is impossible.

2003-08-14 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 11:58:45PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:42:16AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > > Might be wrong here, but I think it is timing out, and immediately > > being called again. Or is it now not working, but no longer putting > > out any messages? > > It is now

Re: CD-ROM read fails. Recovery is impossible.

2003-08-14 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 02:29:51PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > CD-ROM media is second only to diskettes as being prone to errors. Amazing they work as well as they do, I think... > I seemingly have a bad CD in my IDE CD drive. I have these entries > in my log: > Or maybe it's a bad drive, Doe

Re: CD-ROM read fails. Recovery is impossible.

2003-08-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:42:16AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > Does it do it with all CDs? It has never done it before, and I can't check without shutting down, which I've been trying to avoid doing. > Take the lid off and try pushing the connectors into place... Again, I'm trying to avoid the need

Re: CD-ROM read fails. Recovery is impossible.

2003-08-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 09:25:14PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > Oh dear. That combination is what happened to my drive that crapped > out half way through reading a CD and never worked again. In this case, a reboot (no power-down) fixed it. This makes me even more inclined to thing "software bug". I

Re: CD-ROM read fails. Recovery is impossible.

2003-08-14 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 11:58:45PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:42:16AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > There should be a little hole somewhere on the front panel of your > > CD-ROM. > > But there isn't, and in any case I am, once again, trying to avoid > rebooting. There isn't?