Hi everyone,
I'm perplexed - I've got a DVD+RW drive that refuses to read CD-Rs and other CDs, but these disks can be read in my laptop's DVD+RW drive.
Manually mounting such CDs gives me: mount: No medium found I know I can read some factory-pressed CD such as the EF2000 CD (lovely game).
My drive is: LG HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GSA-H55N and was purchased in very early 2008 I believe. Laptop drive is: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T40N (Which I believe is also an LG)
Is this likely to be a hardware fault and I have to buy a new drive?
Thanks
Srdjan
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 07:06:17PM +0100, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
I'm perplexed - I've got a DVD+RW drive that refuses to read CD-Rs and other CDs, but these disks can be read in my laptop's DVD+RW drive.
Manually mounting such CDs gives me: mount: No medium found I know I can read some factory-pressed CD such as the EF2000 CD (lovely game).
You haven't done something silly like miss support out in your kernel for cd-rom filesystems or similar? I also take it that DVD discs are working ok?
Adam
Hi,
2009/7/25 Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk:
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 07:06:17PM +0100, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
I'm perplexed - I've got a DVD+RW drive that refuses to read CD-Rs and other CDs, but these disks can be read in my laptop's DVD+RW drive.
You haven't done something silly like miss support out in your kernel for cd-rom filesystems or similar? I also take it that DVD discs are working ok?
Yeah I've got iso9660 in /proc/filesystems, and (most) DVD-Rs work ok. I have found a few DVD-Rs that can take about 30 (or more) seconds to actually read - as in it seems the firmware on the drive is waiting for some timeout to start reading the disk or seeking to the correct place on the disk. During that time the LED on the drive is on and the disk in the drive seems to be spinning slower than normal.
Srdjan
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Adam Bower -
Srdjan Todorovic