6 Jul
2003
6 Jul
'03
14:55
On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 14:18, Paul Trevethan wrote:
I am down to assuming some sort of hardware failure, yet the drive still operates, ie it opens and closes etc.
I don't believe the optical head is connected to the motor which controls the tray. Check /var/log/messages and see if you get any meaningful error messages, but if it is as you say, that it just stopped in the middle of an operation and hasn't worked since, I'd say you're very likely right, it's broken on the hardware level