CD ROM doesn't read

Ben Pfaff blp@cs.stanford.edu
26 Oct 2001 14:10:23 -0700


Dennis <dennis@pipper.net> writes:

> I have an old Gateway P-133 with a Wearnes CDD820 CROM and the cd's I
> bought from CompUSA don't work.  Every distro I try to install tells
> me it can find the CDROM drive using those disks, if I grab a
> commercial CD, it works okay, but I' have to keep getting those from
> the library.

Very old CD-ROM drives will not read CD-Rs.