On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 01:02:25PM -0600, Michael P. Brininstool wrote: > Gérard Milmeister wrote: > > This is probably a hardware error, but someone may have a solution. > > Quite suddenly, my DVD drive (Plextor PX-716A) does not recognize > > disks anymore, neither DVD nor CD-ROM. If I use 'mount' manually > > I just get: > > mount: No medium found > > Any idea what could have happened? > > Probably I have to get a new drive, in any case no Plextor anymore... Loose cable? Check both power & data cables, and all ends on the latter. > > I have the same drive and it works perfectly, unless I try to BOOT off > of it to install FC5 instead of FC1. Can one not boot off the Plextor > 716A? It is on second chain, but alone as master on that chain. Have you been able to boot to it in the past? Does your BIOS permit booting to it? Can you boot other CDs &/| DVDs? -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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