[Cialug] Optical Drive Won't Boot

[Todd Walton]

On 3/29/09, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
> Check to make sure the DVD disk boots in another computer. One time I
> about pulled my hair out because I was burning my disks at too high of
> a speed and they weren't functioning properly (they had erratic
> errors). I thought it was a problem with the target computer but it
> was actually the disks.

Well, if I use the same hard drive but an older different CD drive,
the disks boot.  So I think that means it's the DVD drive.  Or just an
incompatibility problem between the two.  I guess this is why SATA was
invented.

-todd