On Nov 19, 2007 11:59 AM, Neil Joseph Schelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One troubleshooting mechanism I'd give a shot... > > Have you tried booting up with a Knoppix or Ubuntu or some other liveCD > distro? At least then, you can boot up and see if your DVD drive works there > and identify to start whether it's a legitimate hardware issue or just some > issue with the Mandriva distro kernel or something.
I ran Mint LiveCD (based on Ubuntu Feisty) and Fedora7 LiveCD on this system before the Mandriva distro, and I know for certain that Fedora had NO issue with the drive at all. I tried running latest Mepis release (did not like the JMicron controller from the start), so I know some systems have issues . It is a dual boot and runs XP (for now) and that has no trouble with burning a DVD on that drive. It is not the drive. kernel is 2.6.22-9-server on the system. Some other kits of interest: hal is 0.5.10-0.rc2.4 cdrkit-genisoimage-1.1.6-5mdv2008.0 cdrkit-1.1.6-5mdv2008.0 cdrdao-1.2.2-6mdv2008.0 lsmod shows: <..snip..> ide_cd 43424 0 jmicron 8064 0 [permanent] usb_storage 106180 0 ide_core 124432 3 ide_cd,jmicron,usb_storage <..snip..> I tried adding 'hda=cdrom' to the boot switches, and that at least let cdrecord THINK that the drive was a cdrom, but the first time I tried to actually burn anything, it reverted to the same information included previously. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
