Replacing bad CDRom drive

[Duane Attaway]

On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Jon Moss wrote:

> I was actually able to boot off the RedHat 9 CD and get part way through
> the text based installation.  Then it would stop.  I used this same set
> of CDs a couple of weeks ago on a different computer at work with no
> problems.  Since it was doing the same thing with the factory RedHat 8
> CDs (the same ones I installed on this home computer several months ago
> and which I have used on other computers), I guessed it was the drive
> dying (because the errors were inconsistent).

I believe one of the shell consoles (CTL-ALT-F3?) they have the syslog
output where you can see all the hardware detection, events, and errors
that may happen.  Redhat may still use this.  Very handy.

Once I had a cdrom (my only one) that was failing when it would get
halfway through a disc.  Silicone grease in the gears helped me get
through, but it appeared wear finally made the drive useless.

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