[PLUG] Mandrake 9.2 can kill your CD Drive

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Thu Oct 30 15:56:02 UTC 2003


On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Grigsby, Garl wrote:

> I'm sure there are good drives out there, but I haven't run into any yet.
> HP started using IDE LG drives on their C series HPUX systems about 2
> years ago. In the last year and a half we have had to replace 12 cd drives
> (and we only have 8 of these machines). I have also seen 2 cd drives
> replaced in DELL laptops in the last year, all of which were LGs. I guess
> I just hope from a little more reliability than that.

  Well, Garl, that's the problem: the drives are too new. :-) I bought mine
about 4.5 years ago so perhaps they were more solid and reliable then.

Rich

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