CD drive opening on boot (solved)

My cd/dvd drive opens when I boot and won't finish unless I close it. This is pre grub so its hardware ??.
Last edited by normc (2008-04-25 02:24:07)

brebs wrote:Maybe a faulty internal CD cable
I changed the cable and put a jumper on master instead of letting it default. Works fine now.

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