Hi Mohan,

No one else has asked this question so...

How old is the drive and does it work with a different OS? I have had 
them die so they will read either DVDs or CDs but not both. It seems 
they use different hardware for each; substitution with a working drive 
has always resolved this issue :). Other than this I have never met a 
drive Linux wouldn't read "out of the box", and I've met some weird s*#t.

This is a real issue with multi-standard drives, verified by moving the 
drive to other machines and other OSs, updating firmware etc. Some 
drives have been less than 2 years old.

Cheers, Graham.

Patelkhana Mohan Rao wrote:
> Hi Nick,
> The problem is:
> my m/c could not recognise the dvd part of the cd/dvd rom.
> It is revealed in yesterday's SFD that the subject driver is not 
> installed.
>  regards
> mohan
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Nick Rout <[email protected]>
> *To:* Canterbury Linux Users Group <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Mon, 20 September, 2010 8:08:20 AM**
>
>     Greg, the driver
>     HL-DT-ST DVDRRW GSA-4166B driver downloads
>     I could not get on the net.
>     Problem not resolved.
>     If you can find any web address, send me. will be of much useful.
>     thanks and wishing you a romantic life.
>
>
> you should not need any drivers other than what is in the kernel. What 
> is the problem?
>
>  
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