On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 03:45:42PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
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>   | I suspect that it may just be a bit of dust in there, but don't have
>   | the means to clean it at the moment.
> 
> That is what I'd suspect too - a drive with an openning (just not air tight,
> it doesn't need to be wide open - any CD counts) is going to accumulate

I went on an expedition to obtain a CD-drive cleaning kit.  It has printed
instructions saying that I should run a program that they include, but the
brushes seem to be at the right spot to clean my lens, anyway.  Maybe I was
just lucky, maybe I was just NOT unlucky.  (If that hadn't worked, I would
have tried something like "wc /dev/cd1d"...)

Anyway, I've now burned a NetBSD-current CD and my laptop is installing.
All is happy once again in Pleasantville---if you ignore the alien
invasion.


Thanks to everyone for advice.


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