Re: cdrom

[dave <dave@dpomeroy.com>]

Ray and all,
  I decided that it must be a hardware problem.  I ordered a new burner 
and so I will try that.  It just happened out of the blue, I haven't 
tried it in windows xp as I can't install vmware cause the cd burner 
won't read the vmware cd.  I should have the new burner in a couple of 
days.  Thanks for your help and I'll post after I try the new burner.
Dave


Ray Olszewski wrote:

> At 06:17 AM 10/1/2004 -0700, dave wrote:
>
>> I have a samsung cdrom.  The last couple of weeks it quit working or 
>> only partially works.  It works great for booting mandrake 10 and 
>> installing.  It works great for burning.  It just doesn't work trying 
>> to read a cd.  I have a cd full of pictures, my vmware disk,  windows 
>> xp that it reads a little.  On the windows cd it show 3 icons with 
>> question marks where the file name is ususally.  I'm at a loss.  
>> Anyone have any ideas?  Thanks for your time.
>> Dave Pomeroy K7DNP South Eastern Washington
>
>
>
> Since you write "It works great for booting mandrake 10 and 
> installing", I surmise that the failures are associated with a fresh 
> install of Linux. Please correct me if I am wrong. My immediate 
> thought is that you are using a kernel that does not support Joliet 
> extensions ... check this in the kernel source .config file if you can 
> (it's under Filesystems in the "make menuconfig" menus).
>
> If that's not it, and if no one else comes up with something, you're 
> going to need to give us a more detailed report about the failures 
> indicating what else changed contemporaneously with the "quit 
> working", if the drive reads properly non-Windows CDs written on it, 
> if it works properly under Windows (I ask this only becaus you mention 
> a Windows XP CD, causing me to surmise that this system dual boots), 
> and what "reads a little" means with respect to the "cd full of 
> pictures" you mention.
>
> If all this happened simply out of the blue, with no other changes in 
> your Linux setup, then I would suspect a hardware problem with the 
> drive. I've had drives fail before, but the usual symptom I see, under 
> either Linux or Windows, is a complete inability to read disks (my 
> failed drives were read-only drives, not RW drives).
>
>
>
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