From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave Subject: Re: cdrom Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 05:16:00 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <415FED80.2050505@dpomeroy.com> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20041001082059.01faeff8@celine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20041001082059.01faeff8@celine> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Ray Olszewski Cc: linux-newbie 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). > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs