[G4] Help: can't read internal CD drive STILL

[Eytan Bercovitch]

Thanks for suggestions.  Here are a couple of
responses

1.
-- lavode at comcast.net wrote:
> Well, it's not as radical as a clean install, but
> close.  Do an install of the OS over the existing
> one.  You could also update to Panther.  I have a
> Yikes 400 with 800 RAM, and I ran 10.2.8 just fine,
> no problems with my stock 8x CD-ROM, a 4X DVD-ROM
> from a Sawtooth, nor my Pioneer DVR 107.  Looks like
> the OS is the problem.

Reply: is there a downside to installing over the
previous installation?

I suppose I should get Panther, but now that Apple is
going to release "Tiger" in a few months, it feels
like I should wait.  Maybe it will be year before
"Tiger" in which case it would be stupid to wait. . .

2. 
--- Mike Tweedie <mac at springerlabs.com> wrote:
> Does ASP see it under X?

Reply:  What is ASP? Why would this be useful?

3.
-- "Joseph B. Gurman" <gurman at gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:

>      WAIT! Don't reinstall anything until you go to
> a computer supply 
> shop, purchase a can of compressed air, open the
> drive tray, and give 
> the innards a few good blasts of compressed air. 

Reply: I got very hopeful with this, since I actually
happen to have some compressed air and could try it
out.  Unfortunately, the air blowing did not help,
though also no harm.

So, again, thanks to the suggestions, but I'm still
hoping for something like "try replacing such and such
a file" somewhere in the innards of OX10.2

Thanks and thanks for any other ideas!