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waider ([personal profile] waider) wrote2004-02-01 11:56 pm
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hardware failure, continued

One of my laptop DVD drives recently started whining about its inability to read some CDs. After a bit of poking around with Google I have learned that my DVD drive features two lasers, one for DVD and one for CD. So I stuck in a DVD and lo and behold, it played happily. Interesting but unhelpful.