Thanks for the info about non-read spinning of cdrom drives, a long time ago when I was going through a win98se reinstall nightmare repeatedly I managed reinstalls by listening for the spinning of the cd to stop completely before trying the next step on my braille notes. It's a desperate technique, but being totally blind without sighted assistance and needing to reinstall win98se makes desperate measures necessary.
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Jude DaShiell, le Sat 18 Feb 2012 05:53:03 -0500, a ?crit : > > When the beep for the boot prompt happens on both machines, the cd or dvd > > continues to read as I type parameters in. > > What do you mean by "read"? Do you mean the CD still spinning? That > does not necessarily mean "reading", CD readers usually keep spinning > for some time after reading, to avoid having to keep stop/restarting all > the time. > > > I don't know if the beep is placed correctly or not. > > It is. All keypresses from there (actually, slightly before already) are > taken into account for the menu. > > > I've tried waiting until all disk activity has > > stopped too to no good effect. > > So that's not the problem, but the ltlk driver. > > Samuel > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.bsf.2.01.1202180744270.76...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg
