On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 09:32 +1300, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote: > The drive spins up, the light flickers exactly the same for the good > ones as well as the bad ones. But for the ones it ignores reports > that the drive is empty, no media present. That's only a crude indicator of what the drive is doing. You'd want to know error counts, and how hard it was to focus, etc., to really know how well the drive was reading a disc. -- (Currently testing FC5, but still running FC4, if that's important.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.