🚀 go-pugleaf

	Okay, I've tried dealing with it, but I've just gotten totally fed
 up and figured I'd try to find out why the heck the NeXT CD-ROM is so
 flakey.  First off, this is a classic '030 NeXT Cube, with an external
 660M Fujitsu and the 40M Quantum on the SCSI chain with the CD-ROM.  The
 Fujitsu is ID #1, the CD-ROM is #4, and the Quantum is #6.  That's the
 background info...

	Now, the problem is just that the CD-ROM a basically, to me,
 unusable.  I expected slow.  This I can deal with, as long as it's doing
 something. But...well, lessee, after dealing with a few odd problems,
 installing 3.0 did okay...a lot of problems but most of them were my fault,
 and after a while it got done.  Well, then I decided that, mostly for
 speed-sake, I'd re-install 3.0 after reformatting the drive.  Okay, no
 problem, the install goes great, but, not so easy for the extended
packages.  In fact, it basically didn't want to install them at all.  I
tried installing them direct from the CD...no go...I tried copying them
(using WS Manager) from the CD, then installing them.  Again, this didn't
work.  (okay, for information, if I remember correctly, in trying to do
this the console reported some errors...I *believe* they had something to
do with "timeout" errors or some such)  Well, finally I got sick of this
and just tried copying the damn things by hand...in single user mode...
hey! This worked!  I got a bunch of errors while doing it (again, I believe
it was related to timeout) but it worked.  Installed the packages, no
problem.

	Okay, 3.0 installed, now what to do with the CD-ROM? Well, for one,
if I keep the damn thing turned on, anytime I try to run an application the
system seems to want to occupy itself for about 5 minutes doing
God-knows-what *then* executing the application.  Trying to play music CDs
(though CDplayer) more often then not ends up with the CD stopping midsong
somewhere and me having to restart it.  *If* it doesn't decide to just
kill CDPlayer and eject the disk.  ???  Why?  

	Well, luckily, however, I can just turn the thing off and use
my system productively without it. But...I don't like having a paperweight
I spent ~$600 on around just to install the OS if I have to.

	Why is it doing this? How do I get the thing to work properly?
Would it do me any good to try to return it? (provided I can actually do
so, which I doubt)  What gives?

	Gack...sorry for spouting off for so long, but it's bugging the
heck out of me...

	Any responses *most* welcome...

	- Leif Harrison
	  n9240566@henson.cc.wwu.edu