Rescue from a floppy?

[Bob Chiodini]

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 09:58, Lemke, Wesley wrote:
> Yes, I was able to read the media once booted into fedora, and I think
> that the drive is detected by the BIOS (although now that I think of it,
> I'm not 100% sure on that....I'll have to double check at home tonight).
> If it isn't detected by the BIOS, how can I fix that?
> 
> This is a Plextor CD-RW drive, and it is the only optical drive in the
> system.
> 

Try moving the drive to either other IDE interface.  Also, if it's the
slave try making it the master.  In my case, I ended up replacing the
drive.

If the BIOS is detecting the drive at boot time, an earlier suggestion
of burning a new disk seems appropriate.  If possible try a blank from a
different manufacturer than the first.  We've seen some very marginal
media.  My rule of thumb (right or wrong):  If you can see through the
disk get another brand.  Also, the score given by cdrecord seems to be a
pretty good indicator.  The marginal disks I've seen were scored at B-
or C, were gold in color (viewed from either side, i.e. no label), and
had no labeling on the package.

Sorry not much help, but real wordy :-).

Bob...
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