On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:42:38PM +0200, Konstantinos Georgokitsos wrote:
On Friday 14 January 2005 11:47, David SMITH wrote:
Are you sure the hardware is still OK? My DVD-ROM drive failed in a similar manner.
Both of them, at the same time?
I didn't realise you'd had two fail at the same time, but it's always worth eliminating the possibility rather than spending ages chasing around looking for software problems.
I'd have to open the box and try the drives on another machine.
Try booting some kind of "live-cd distribution" (e.g. Knoppix, Mepis, SuSE Eval) rather than hacking the hardware; it could save you some effort. Oh, I forgot, you haven't got a CD-writer :-/ -- David Smith Work Email: Dave.Smith@st.com STMicroelectronics Home Email: David.Smith@ds-electronics.co.uk Bristol, England GPG Key: 0xF13192F2