[SlugBug] Re: Reminder - meeting tonight

[Mr. Adam ALLEN]

On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 15:50, Lesley Binks wrote:

> I could have done with a quick chat about this ...
> 
> Dell Latitude L400 PIII-700 Laptop
> 
> I am scraping the cash together to buy one of these with floppy drive 
> and CD rom drive.
> 

I managed to blow a years student loan on the L400 brand new 3 years
ago. I've since upgraded the memory to 256Mb / 30Gb drive. Mine is
showing it's age now and is a bit bruised and battered. 

The only thing that doesn't work is ACPI, having to manually use APM. 

I've gone from Redhat 7.3 through to Fedora Core 2 (and once FC3 test 2
comes out that will be thrown at it).

> They are fairly old secondhand machines but I have been having a spot of 
> bother with them.  The company I am buying from has been very good, 
> replacing the complete unit when one wouldn't boot from hard disk, CD or 
> floppy.
> 
> I am now at the stage where I have a working floppy but still no CD 
> working and the company is sending out a replacement.
> 
> The CD drive is recognised, in both the BIOS and the minimal Win 98 
> system but there is no way I can even get a directory listing of a known 
> good disk, merely getting a CDR101 device not ready when reading error 
> and the ubiquitous Abort, Retry Fail message.
> 

I've hardly used my CD-drive in it's time- but it's flaky. I find that
spinning the CD manually then 'slamming' shut gets disks recognised.
Like you are seeing- the drive is recognised it just doesn't read the
disks.

Since FC1 I've been booting from the network to fire off an
installation, I never really have need for the CD apart from
installation time. 
-- 
Regards,
Adam Allen.

adam at dynamicinteraction.co.uk
pgp http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x553349DB

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