Carl Lowenstein wrote: > Last night I spent a couple of hours muttering about incompatible > changes in K3b from Fedora 3 to Centos 5.1 that caused me to waste a > couple of DVD blanks while trying to make some copies of the Fedora 9 > distribution. Then I tried writing from the command line, and got > another couple of failures. This morning I tried reading the "bad" > DVDs on another computer, and they were all fine. > > More investigation shows that my NEC ND-3550A CD/DVD reader/writer > seems to have lost the ability to _read_ anything. But it still > writes. I don't understand this. I thought that there was only one > read/write head. >
Don't know about the head/heads, but there's surely different circuitry involved, no? I've got one that reads but won't write, which I would guess is more common than your situation. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
