I have a crankie DVD-ROM drive. It’s always been crankie and I didn’t remember how crankie it was until this morning.<\/p>\n
I had this computer built for my by a local computer shop up in Portland, Maine in the spring of 1999. I bought it with an old DVD rom drive, which probably cost me about $70, and it only does 4x dvd and has trouble playing new multilayer disks.<\/p>\n
I spent the summer of 1999 with my aunt in Philadelphia, this was the first time I met Michael in real life, we had known each other online for about 9 months. That summer I was there my DVD-ROM stopped working, the drive wouldn’t even open. I rebooted, nothing. Windows couldn’t even see the drive. I left it alone for a while, and eventually shut down my computer because it was annoying me.<\/p>\n
When I turned my computer back on the drive worked fine.<\/p>\n
Fast forward 5 years. It’s March of 2003<\/s> 2004<\/b> and I’m ripping some oggs from a CD. I sat back and watched the first episode of Coupling<\/i> while it was ripping, and was surprised that i wasn’t done making the oggs when I was done watching the show. The encoder was having trouble with the last two songs. So I let it run for a while until it was done. Once it finished I played the two songs it had trouble with. No sound. So I figured the cd was screwy and tried to open the drive. It wouldn’t open. I tried all sorts of things, and it just wasn’t seeing the drive anymore, so I decided to boot into Windows. Windows couldn’t see the drive. I booted into linux and during bootup tried to open the drive, no luck.<\/p>\n
For the past two days I’ve ignored the problem. After the issues with the cdrw earlier this month I just didn’t want to think about this at all, stupid cdroms!<\/p>\n
This morning the power went out for a few minutes and Michael was up to shut down my system.<\/p>\n
When I got up I booted up, still ignoring the problem. Then a friend of mine wanted to try out xchat for Windows, so just for fun I booted into windows to try it out since I never had before. While booting up I heard a noise from my DVD rom drive, so I pushed the button to open it and it opened.<\/p>\n
Now I don’t know enough about hardware to understand what’s going on. Why would a full shutdown work to solve this stupid problem and not a simple reboot? What could be controlling this craziness with the drive?<\/p>\n
*wanders off*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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