Re: Dselect suddenly unable to read cdrom
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> I have an official CDROM for Debian which I've used for a good many
> months without problems. Suddenly I'm getting numerous errors in reading
> the disk; I can't give the exact error messages but they are of the form
>
> "Atapi reset... error on reset.."
>
> After a good deal of this it resumes reading the disk and eventually
> reaches the end, but says it has encountered Error 1.
>
> I thought it might be a hardware problem but it reads other cdroms
> without difficulty, including other Debian disks. I've cleaned the disk
> and the laser window.
>
> This is on a Toshiba Satellite 4000CDT.
>
> I don't see how a cdrom disk could become unreadable unless it were
> badly scratched, which this is not.
>
> Can anyone suggest what could be happening? If it is a hardware problem
> it's still under warranty, but I could hardly claim this since all other
> disks are read properly.
A few weeks ago I had similar symptoms which disappeared after I used
cleaned the cdrom with a cleaning disk. Maybe it is dirt.
Johann
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