Hardware failure? was Re: My ide1 is back!!!

[Kerry Hoath]

Disconnect the ide cable from the drive and only connect power.
Hit the eject button; if the draw opens the drive
is ok, if not; it might be unwell.
Shut down t he pc and reconnect the ribbon cable.

Regards, Kerry.
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 08:12:59AM -0400, Terry Cudney wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 	I've been following this thread, hoping it might yield a clue to what's happening with my setup. So far, Cheryl's problem seems to be different from mine:
> 
> 	I have an IDE CDRW (Panasonic) that was working fine with SCSI emulation setup. Several things changed around the same time, so I'm not sure which, if any of them are responsible for the present failure.
> 
> 	The symptom is, that the cdrw light blinks continuously and the drive is dead, ie even pressing the "eject" button on the front of the drive will not open the drawer.
> 	I have tried putting the cdrw on a cable, as master, by itself. To no avail. It doesn't even show up in dmesg.
> 
> 	I suspect this is a hardware failure. Can anyone suggest a way to verify that it is hardware?
> 
> 	Thanks,
> 
> 	    --terry
> 
> 
> Name:	Terry D. Cudney
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