Drive woun't handle CD's

[Derek Broughton]

Tom Rausner wrote:

> Hi All.
> 
> I have discovered a strange problem with my DVD/CD -drive. I was going
> to burn a CD but the drive couldn't find the disk. I switched to another
> disk a couple of times -no luck.
> 
> Then I tried playing a burned CD I've been playing with no problems
> before -no luck. Then I tried a comercial made CD -no luck. Then I
> mounted the drive in hand and got a messsage saying there was no media
> in the drive. Then I put a DVD in the drive -no problems.

It sounds like the drive's broken to me.  Bad behaviour with only CDs you'd
burned, or some other specific behaviour, might be your problem.  Inability
to read _any_ CD sounds like it's dead.
-- 
derek