On 9 Jul, this message from Colin Foran echoed through cyberspace: > One of my devout mac friends brought up an interesting point. the PRAM > batterie on > this machine is shot, could that somehow be corrupting my scsi cdrom reads?
No. The empty PROM battery will make your hardware clock reset to strange times, and eventually will prevent the box from starting up. But that's it... > none > of the errors seem consistant with each other. ill get an incurable media > error at > one sectore one attempt, then not at the same spot at a latter attempt, it > kind of > leads me to believe that hes right. Nope. Have you checked a known-good CD in your drive? Does it work under MacOS? If so, it could _still_ be a SCSI cabling problem; its not guaranteed that MacOS drives the SCSI bus at the same speed as Linux does. Cheers Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. " -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
