[ALUG] Dying DVD Drive?

[Martin Collins]

Thanks Nick,

Now I'm thinking that this is a bug with the ide-cd kernel module and I
think it relates to (re-)writable media but ONLY those with large files
on them. The ones I can't get to mount either have tarred back-ups on
them or have 6 x 700Mb Xvid ripped movies on them. (Re-)Writable media
with smaller files seem to mount OK.

In Gnome, System->Administration-Device Manager reports mounted worm
media correctly as DVD-R's. However media that fails to mount (DVD-R's)
are reported in Device Manager as being DVD-RW's and blank. But they
aren't blank but if I do put a blank in it is recognised as such and
Gnome pops up a dialogue asking what I want to do with it.

I'm going to remove Ubuntu 6.06 and try a different distro. I am
currently waiting to be re-connected with broadband and only have a
mobile phone and GPRS Easy Connect to access the Internet so I'll be
going incognito for a couple of days until I can get access to my
e-mails again.

Thanks all,

Martin

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 11:54 +0100, Nick Daniels wrote:
> >
> Hi Martin
> 	I cannot decipher kernel message, but have had similar problems
> with Suse 10.1.
> 	Dvdwriter stopped writing on Suse and failed to read some CD/DVD's
> bought new DVD rewriter, that also failed to funtion correctly.
> 	Tried it on Etch, and Gentoo, fully functional, also tried  old one
> on same, fully working.
> 	When writing, on Suse it would "commence write" then immediatly
> "close session" K3b gave "unknown error"
> 	I believe this problem, with me, commenced with Suse after last update.
> 
> 	Kind Regards - Nick Daniels
> 
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