Problem with CD-ROM

Problem with CD-ROM

[Alan Bort]

Hi, probably this isn't the best place to ask this, but still:

 From the console of the Alphaserver 300 4/266 I try boot dka400
(supposedly the CD-ROM... well at least that's what sh dev says) and it
returns something like: no medium found.

I first noticed the problem when I was trying to get a md5sum from the
RH7.1 CD, I was going to re-install linux...

Does this mean that my CD-ROM is dead?

Please, any help will be welcome.

Thanks in advance

Alan Bort.-

Re: Problem with CD-ROM

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

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On Sun, 2004-07-04 15:08:29 -0300, Alan Bort <333101@personal.net.py>
wrote in message <40E8479D.1080305@personal.net.py>:
> Hi, probably this isn't the best place to ask this, but still:
> 
> From the console of the Alphaserver 300 4/266 I try boot dka400
> (supposedly the CD-ROM... well at least that's what sh dev says) and it
> returns something like: no medium found.

Either the drive is dead, or you didn't burn the ISO image properly...

MfG, JBG

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Re: Problem with CD-ROM

[Alan Bort]

ok... thanks... The image is fine... In fact I used the same CD to 
install over 5 systems... And besides that, I tried with other CDs, even 
comercial CDs I own (games and stuff)... so I guess the drive must be 
dead then... darn! it was such a fine drive....

Thanks a lot...

Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-07-04 15:08:29 -0300, Alan Bort <333101@personal.net.py>
>wrote in message <40E8479D.1080305@personal.net.py>:
>  
>
>>Hi, probably this isn't the best place to ask this, but still:
>>
>>From the console of the Alphaserver 300 4/266 I try boot dka400
>>(supposedly the CD-ROM... well at least that's what sh dev says) and it
>>returns something like: no medium found.
>>    
>>
>
>Either the drive is dead, or you didn't burn the ISO image properly...
>
>MfG, JBG
>
>  
>

Re: Problem with CD-ROM

[bob smith]

or the drive lense is dirty.  Can happen, if you have a cd drive 
cleaning disk, try that,
good luck!
bob

Alan Bort wrote:

> ok... thanks... The image is fine... In fact I used the same CD to 
> install over 5 systems... And besides that, I tried with other CDs, 
> even comercial CDs I own (games and stuff)... so I guess the drive 
> must be dead then... darn! it was such a fine drive....
>
> Thanks a lot...
>
> Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2004-07-04 15:08:29 -0300, Alan Bort <333101@personal.net.py>
>> wrote in message <40E8479D.1080305@personal.net.py>:
>>  
>>
>>> Hi, probably this isn't the best place to ask this, but still:
>>>
>>> From the console of the Alphaserver 300 4/266 I try boot dka400
>>> (supposedly the CD-ROM... well at least that's what sh dev says) and it
>>> returns something like: no medium found.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Either the drive is dead, or you didn't burn the ISO image properly...
>>
>> MfG, JBG
>>
>>  
>>
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