[olug] cd-rom drive

[Mike Peterson]

Can you supply some info about your hard drive for Diagnosis purposes?
What size?
What speed?
What brand?
Do you still have the old hard drive in the system as a data drive?

I installed a new 15 GB Maxtor in a system and left the old 4 GB Maxtor in
as a slave.
I tried installing Mandrake 8.0 to part of the 15 GB and it appeared to CD
problems for me also.
I pulled a new 44X CD of the shelf and put it in place of a 24X or slower CD
and the install started but it took almost 2 hours to install and never
finished. Normally I have been able to install Mandrake on most systems in
less than 30 minutes.
I used CTRL-ALT-F1 thru CTRL-ALT-F4 to look at the load screens and found
out that the old 4 GB HD that I was not trying to access was not responding
and this appeared to be causing the problems. I removed power from the drive
and restarted the system and the install went as fast as it usually does.
Let me know if this helps.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Hungate Jim" <Hungate_Jim at prc.com>
To: <olug at bstc.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 7:35 AM
Subject: [olug] cd-rom drive


> I recently had the cd-rom drive die in my system. I pulled one out of an
old
> 486 that was laying around (Pioneer 24x ATAPI). Now I've put a new hard
> drive in my system. I loaded Win 98 and Partition Magic fine. Now that I'm
> ready to reload Linux, it doesn't seem to like my cd-rom drive. I can boot
> from the Mandrake 8 CD, but when it tries to read the CD, it takes
forever.
> I eventually made it to the point where it was searching for packages to
> install, but after waiting over an hour the list to come up, I gave up and
> rebooted the system. I tried a couple of other distros that I have lying
> around too, and got the same results. Any suggestions, other than the
> obvious one of a new cd-rom drive?
>  Thanks,
>
> Jim Hungate
> Security-wise, NT is a server with a "Kick me" sign taped to it.  -- Peter
> Gutmann
>
>
>
>
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