[LBo] CDROM problems [was: Samba using DHCP]

[Anita Lewis]

On 07/14/2006 02:32 PM Stefan Waidele wrote:

>
> Anita is migrating her office to Linux!
> Write down the date, Anita. This is only the begining.

Thanks Stefan and all for the info on Samba.  I was trying to make it 
too hard it seems.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, every disk I had to install just wouldn't 
work.  I tried Mepis, Ubuntu LiveCD, and Kanotix on Friday.  I was going 
to resize the drive and then install with my co-worker on Monday.  They 
all got to where they were putting in the filesystem and then failed.  I 
have only 128Mb RAM in the machine; so I thought that was the problem. 

Last night I got the latest Knoppix which runs on 64Mb and also 
Ubuntu-alternate which is not LiveCD.  I even went into work on my day 
off to try them.  They both failed as well.  When I put the disks in to 
look at them in Windows to see if there were some notes on cdrom 
problems, they failed there with the blue screen of death.  Weird.  I 
thought maybe the drive was bad.  I had not had trouble with it before, 
but who knows.  So I got another data disk and it worked just fine.  
Only my install disks and livecds failed.  I could see what was on them, 
but accessing anything caused the blue screen.

So I came home with the name of my drive and I just found a firmware 
upgrade for the drive that allows it to read 700Mb size disks!!  LOL.  
Oh, yeah, and all the disks that these things are on are my disks from 
the same batch and are 700Mb.  The firmware is able to install straight 
from Windows; so it should be easy enough.  Then probably all of the 
doggone disks will work.  I was concerned that the firmware executable 
was going to make a floppy, because that computer has 5.25 drive. It has 
the 1.44 mb drive too, but that isn't on A: and the BIOS has only one 
drive at a time for an option.  Maybe there will be a way to use both 
drives, but that is not so important since it has a zip drive.  We need 
the 5.25 drive for our purposes when we get one of those old floppies in 
to the archives.  One of the big problems we face is keeping material 
readable.  We are just now getting some reel to reel tapes digitized.  
The media lasts longer than the technology to read it!!

So I think this thing is solved now.  The cdrom is Phillips cdd3610 cd 
rw and the firmware is f309win.zip.  It can be had at 
http://members.driverguide.com/ aw well as other places.  Just in case 
anyone ever stumbles on this email and needs that info.  I'll follow up 
on how it goes on Monday.

Anita