Guest DG Posted November 3, 2002 Report Share Posted November 3, 2002 I recently replaced my CDRW with a new, faster drive. It works well, with one huge exception: The "busy" light on the drive will blink, and force a machine reboot. It happens: 1) generally during boot, before the file system is mounted. 2) 10-15 minutes after boot. 3) completely randomly, sometimes hours after boot (less often). This will happen regardless if a disk is in the device. It does not seem to be a hardware defect--I am using a dual-boot machine, Linux Mandrake 8.1 and Win98. The behavior does not manifest itself in Windows. The new drive is manuf by Buslink, model-- LITE-ON LTR-48125W Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted November 4, 2002 Report Share Posted November 4, 2002 Power supply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted November 4, 2002 Report Share Posted November 4, 2002 yes thats sounds like a power supply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DG Posted November 4, 2002 Report Share Posted November 4, 2002 Well, I'll be a rat *(5$%$##$%! That sounds exactly right: Of course, I don't look at the CDRW until the reboot, and it's blinking 'cause it's just resetting itself AFTER the shutdown. The CDRW was never the problem. On the incredibly stupid frontier-- I also just added another harddrive three weeks before--and mounted the swap partition on the second drive for performance reasons. No wonder the behavior is limited to Linux, both drives are simultaneously accessed as a rule.... A thousand thanks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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