Gentoo is a monster that kills CD-drives

[Steveway]

Well, just want to tell a little story.
I have an Acer-Laptop with one of those stupid tsst-CD/DVD-drives.
It works pretty well and reads about anything but that is not what I want to tell.
While searching for more experience and having a second free partition I decided to try out the Gentoo Live-CD.
Pretty nice, works ok emerge is nice too.
So up to the install, the gtk-installer is pretty straightforward if you know your hardware.
Ok installing...needs some time, compiles some things, then nothing...
My drive stopped to work, I had to reboot and it took me to grub, Gentoo seemed to have reached up to the point where it installs grub and I can boot into Gentoo.
But the install seems not to be finished really and the drive gets mounted read-only , dang.
Ok, then let's try it again! CD in, choose to boot from Cd, ok, booting...Grub. What? Why?
I check the CD, the drive, nothing.
Another CD, nothing.
So I can only boot into a broken grub and not install something different? That sucks.
Ok, I have to rescue that Laptop, it's my main machine, I only have a 166MHZ machine her functioning as a server without a monitor attached to it.
Ok, in my Bios I saw that I could choose to boot from my external USB-Harddrive.
I went to my sisters Pc, dropped in a Xubuntu CD (I first defragmented my external Harddrive using her Windows), made the Partition smaller, added an ext3 Partition and installed it. Worked like a charm.
I plugged it into my Laptop and booted from it, Grub showed up and showed Xubuntu but it didn't want to boot.
I edited hd(1,1) to hd(0,1) and it worked.
Pheew, that saved me, thank god. CD-drive doesn't work but I can use my Laptop.
But today, several days later, I randomly dropped a Myst 3 CD into it, surfed a little, looked to my Desktop and saw a CD icon entitled Exile DVD.
Whoow, freaking awesome, the drive fixed itself somehow.
Thanks Ubuntu!
I'm not gonna try Gentoo another time on this Laptop, curse you Gentoo.
(I know that Gentoo didn't really kill my drive, it's just badly designed, all those tsst-drives show failures on Windows and on Linux.)