[Techtalk] CD-ROM drive

[perimorph]

On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 05:43, Yaroslav Fedevych wrote:

> but sometimes something can be done without throwing another $25 on a new drive.

like getting one for $10-15 on eBay?  ;)

cd-rom drives do get kinda flaky sometimes..  i had one that would make
the OS freeze every time i tried to mount the cd.  i ended up just
throwing it away since i had another in the same computer.

some things just aren't worth the effort sometimes.

--ash