On 8/30/06, Jo Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You're mistaken. I've never had an optical drive fail entirely - I've
had DVD drives forget how to read DVDs, DVD drives forget how to read
CDs, CD Writers which forget the existence of certain brands of blank
media... And age isn't a factor.
On Tuesday 29 August 2006 15:05, Matthias Julius wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > What model of drive? Any chance the DVD laser is toast on the drive,
> > but the CD laser is OK? They are different lasers running different
> > wavelength of light.
>
> Are you sure? I tho
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 12:20:46AM +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote:
> I checked that. There IS some hald processes running but what
> exactly does this mean?
>
> $ ps ax | grep hald
> 2870 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/hald
> 2871 ?S 0:00 hald-runner
> 2877 ?S 0:00 /usr/
Craig Hagerman wrote:
On 8/30/06, Michael Langley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you can mount and read data DVD-Rs but not video DVD then you
might not have UDF support in your kernel. Either that or your drive
is toast.
I compiled the kernel about 6 months ago. It had all the necessary
m
On 8/30/06, Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Actually the HAL used by gnome/kde on newer systems causes serious
problems for writing DVD/CD on a lot of systems because it keeps polling
the drive to check if there is a disk in there yet. Any chance that is
screwing it up? Look for som
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 12:09:05AM +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote:
> I compiled the kernel about 6 months ago. It had all the necessary
> modules built at that time and DVDs / CDs mounted or were burnt
> without any problems. I haven't installed a new kernel since then.
>
> I doubt the drive is toast
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 10:05:06AM -0400, Matthias Julius wrote:
> Are you sure? I thought they both use red lasers.
DVD is red, CD is infrared.
This is why DVD has more space on it. The tracks are narrowe, the pits
shorter, and the focal depth much shorter. A CD reflects off the other
side of
On 8/30/06, Michael Langley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you can mount and read data DVD-Rs but not video DVD then you might not have
UDF support in your kernel. Either that or your drive is toast.
I compiled the kernel about 6 months ago. It had all the necessary
modules built at that tim
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:30:26 +0900
"Craig Hagerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a puzzling problem I could use some help with. The computer
> will not burn DVD discs, recognize blank DVDs, recognize DVD movie
> discs. However, the computer does automatically recognize and
> automount Audio
On Tuesday 29 August 2006 09:05, Matthias Julius wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > What model of drive? Any chance the DVD laser is toast on the drive,
> > but the CD laser is OK? They are different lasers running different
> > wavelength of light.
>
> Are you sure? I tho
Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What model of drive? Any chance the DVD laser is toast on the drive,
> but the CD laser is OK? They are different lasers running different
> wavelength of light.
Are you sure? I thought they both use red lasers.
Matthias
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On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 08:30:26PM +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote:
> I have a puzzling problem I could use some help with. The computer
> will not burn DVD discs, recognize blank DVDs, recognize DVD movie
> discs. However, the computer does automatically recognize and
> automount Audio CDs, blank CD-R
I have a puzzling problem I could use some help with. The computer
will not burn DVD discs, recognize blank DVDs, recognize DVD movie
discs. However, the computer does automatically recognize and
automount Audio CDs, blank CD-R discs, and data DVD-Rs.
I have tried burning with K3b and other progr
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