[Tfug] CDs: no medium found, DVDs work (sometimes)

[Zack Williams]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Jeremy D Rogers
<jdrogers at northwestern.edu> wrote:
> Well, I finally got a chance to reboot one of the machines and try
> booting from the cd. I figured it would be 'proof' that Zack was wrong
> if the thing boots from cd, but doesn't read the cd once booted from
> the drive. Much to my chagrin, it looks like Zack (and others) was
> right. The hardware looks like its dead.

I'll send you a bill. :)

> Very strange though since the DVD part still works 'sometimes'. I
> tried pulling the drive and putting in another machine and that also
> failed to read the disk. Then after put it back in the workstation,
> the CD worked 2-3 times just fine and then started failing again. Now
> it's at about 30% of the time. DVDs are more like 70% but also fails
> frequently. Any the same across 3 different machines. I guess sometime
> the odds are just that bad.

More likely it was a bad day at the factory... glad you got it figured out.

- Zack