On Wednesday 03 April 2019 05:26:40 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Curt wrote: > > They [CD media] seem to be on their way out the door as a medium > > I ceased arguing against that claim 10 years ago. :)) > > > About Gene's adventure so far, i don't see the media type in the first > row of suspects. > The drive is more likely to be the culprit. How old is it ? > > Then there are the storage conditions of the blank media. Five years > of lighting would be a good reason for the dye to get bad. Temperature > might play a role. (Fungi rather not.) > If it is about CD-RW, then a few rounds of blanking and writing might > revitalize a tired dye. > > We might get more info if Gene would report the messages of > > xorriso -outdev /dev/sr0 -toc > > while a fresh medium is in the drive. > Drive model and Media model and manufacturer would tell something > about the minimum age of the involved hardware. > > > Mainboard "m2n-sli-deluxe" ... 10 years old ?
The manual copyright says 2006. I think it was later than that when I bought it to build this machine. > Nevertheless, i'd expect that some of its USB ports would be > recognized by the BIOS as candidates for booting. > This thread from 2008 > https://forum.pcmech.com/threads/m2n-sli-deluxe-boot-to-usb.197068/ > ends by > > "The issue wasn't changing the boot sequence order by adding USB but > rather adjusting the "Hard drive" option in the boot sequence to > check usb first and then hard drive." Its not a choice in the bios, version 1701 (the original Enterprise) > > Something for Gene to try independently of his installation adventure. > Just check whether an USB stick with the netinst ISO boots to the > first Debian menu (which is a ISOLINU menu, probably). Apparently no need, by the time I got 5 down in the spindle of cd-r's, they were good. If light degrades them, thats a good explanation for the top of the stack to be fussy. I should throw something over the remaining 90 or so on the spindle to slow the degradation. If I think of it... I've not had a similar occurance with a spindle of dvd-r's, but they are a year or 2 newer. Or perhaps put them in a file drawer and close it to put them in the dark? > > Have a nice day :) > > Thomas Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
