Re: blank DVDs no recognized, other media OK

2006-08-29 Thread Lennart Sorensen
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

Re: blank DVDs no recognized, other media OK

2006-08-29 Thread Matthias Julius
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: blank DVDs no recognized, other media OK

2006-08-29 Thread Mike Reinehr
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 thought they

Re: blank DVDs no recognized, other media OK

2006-08-29 Thread Michael Langley
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 CDs,

Re: Re: blank DVDs no recognized, other media OK

2006-08-29 Thread Craig Hagerman
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 time

Re: blank DVDs no recognized, other media OK

2006-08-29 Thread Lennart Sorensen
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

Re: Re: blank DVDs no recognized, other media OK

2006-08-29 Thread Lennart Sorensen
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. It

Re: Re: Re: blank DVDs no recognized, other media OK

2006-08-29 Thread Craig Hagerman
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

Re: blank DVDs no recognized, other media OK

2006-08-29 Thread Jo Shields
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

Re: Re: Re: blank DVDs no recognized, other media OK

2006-08-29 Thread Lennart Sorensen
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

Re: Re: blank DVDs no recognized, other media OK

2006-08-29 Thread Craig Hagerman
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. I