On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 17:25, Graham Watkins wrote: > Hi folks, > > My CD writer cannot read Data CDs any more. It either causes Konqueror > to freeze or the entire system to lock up (with Num Lock and Caps Lock > lights flashin) requiring a hard reboot. > > fstab looks like this: > > none /mnt/cdrom supermount > dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 > > I'd admit the possibility that it was giving up the ghost (it's quite > old) but for 2 things: 1) It works in Windows and 2) It plays and copies > music CDs with no difficulty. > > Is there anything I can do or should I be looking at buying a new one? > > It's a Mitsumi C4802TE if that matters. > > I'm running 9.2
Please notice this is a shot in the dark. Have you thought about getting it cleaned ? You say it's old and maybe its lens is a little dusty. One of those CD-cleaners would do the job. HTH -- josenildo marques icq #289971493 homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net registered linux user #341648 ********* "The gods too are fond of a joke." Aristotle
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