Problems with cdrom on Octane.

lukaszewski@uthscsa.edu · *nix forums beginner Joined: 26 Oct 2005 Posts: 6

Hello,
I'm new lab technician and one of my job duties is bring to life an SGI

Octane. It haven't been used for at about month. I checked that there
is an Irix 6.5 installed on it. Everything seems to be ok except
external cdrom (Toshiba XM-6201TA). It can't read media. I was trying
to install a few graphic aplications, I inserted a music cd (cdda) -
nothing. Drive is trying to read media, light is blinking (non-stop)
and nothing is happening. When I click (right mose button) on the
cd-rom icon and choose open, I got message "Cd-rom drive is unloaded).
I've tried to connect this drive to old Mac - the same behaving - looks

like trying to attempt to path. So I assume that there is something
wrong with this cd but maybe someone has any hints or solutions? Thanks

in advance for any response.

Marcin Lukaszewski

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