he who hesitates has lost about a hundred bucks

[Bill Horne]

Seth,

You're welcome to borrow one of my wintel boxes for a few days. I'm in Sharon.

Bill Horne

Seth Gordon wrote:

> A while back, I posted a question to this list on the problems I'd
> been having with my new Philips PCRW-804 CD writer.  (Summary: It
> doesn't write.  It doesn't read.  But it opens and closes that little
> door real purty-like.)
>
> I assembled some Web pages with diagnostic information, subscribed to
> the cdwrite email list, and described my problem there.  The
> diagnosis, from the fellow who maintains the software: Your hardware's
> defective.
>
> So, I think, the PCRW 800 series has been tested to work with
> cdrecord, so it's probably just this individual drive that's not
> working -- I'll just exchange it.  The only problem is, I had
> procrastinated for so long before testing the damn thing out, I was
> past Best Buy's deadline for exchanging the product.  But no problem,
> I thought: it's still under warranty, so I'll just turn it in to the
> manufacturer for an exchange.
>
> Unfortunately, Philips wants to troubleshoot the system over the
> phone, and since they don't officially support Linux, the only way I
> can follow their troubleshooting procedures is to run it on a
> Windows machine.  Which would probably also require finding the CD-ROM
> containing Windows drivers that came with the drive.  Oh, yeah, and a
> machine running Windows 95, 98, or NT -- our only Windows machine at
> home runs Windows ME.
>
> So my questions for the assembled multitude are:
>
> (1) Wanna buy a cheap, slightly used, CD-RW?
>
> (2) Wanna sell me a cheap mass-storage device that is guaranteed to
>     work on Linux, *without* requiring SCSI or USB?
>
> aaargh,
> --
> "Rav would never cross a bridge when an idolator was on it; he said, 'Maybe he
> will be judged and I will be taken with him.'  Shmuel would only cross a
> bridge when an idolator was on it; he said, 'Satan cannot rule two nations [at
> once].'  Rabbi Yannai would examine [the bridge] and cross."  --Shabbat 32a
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