On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 12:55 pm, many eyes viewed Graham Watkins's words:- > John Richard Smith wrote: > > 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. > > > > What has changed lately ? > > Did you change anything like bios settings? > > kernel updates? > > is the desktop icon well set up , > > can you mount and umount /mnt/cdrom > > > > try, in a terminal with a data disk in drive, > > mount /mnt cdrom (it's probably mounted already) > > if so umount /mnt/cdrom > > then, > > mount /mnt/cdrom > > then, > > ls /mnt/cdrom > > and see it it reads data. > > > > If it fails maybe the ide cable is not seated properly? > > not likely because you say it reads data in windblows. > > I think I would try removing the device form the system after that > > and remaking it with the CL in fstab but that can be risky. > > > > I'm assuming it has worked in M9.2 before. > > I just wonder whether the Xwindows display programme may be > > at fault, because of the konq gui involvement .Do you have > > any other hangups in other programmes? > > Is it just the writer when it hangs ? > > It has worked before in 9.2 - it's even worked intermittently over the > last couple of days. I've changed the cable, but this doesn't seem to > make much difference. I've now disabled supermount and am mounting cds > manually from cl (I'll have to try my hand at bash scripts to cut down > on the typing). Trouble is, when it doesn't work which is at least half > the time, it can freeze the system solid. Hard reboots for Linux? > That's almost unheard of!! > > As regards other programs, mozilla 1.4 crashes a lot and I have a > similar cd problem (i.e crashing) when trying to run VMware. Nothing > else so drastic as this though. > > > I'm away for a spell, > > back in a few days. > > > > John > > Have fun.
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