Re: [Dorset] Possible DVD Drive Failure

2015-08-15 Thread Peter Merchant
On 15/08/15 13:38, Terry Coles wrote: On Saturday 15 Aug 2015 13:19:40 Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi again Terry, Have you another drive to swap in, or another machine to put this drive into? You've already tried other disks, I assume? (Andrew's suggestion on #dorset.) I haven't got one with the

Re: [Dorset] Possible DVD Drive Failure

2015-08-15 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday 15 Aug 2015 13:56:20 Terry Coles wrote: > I'm currently writing systemrescuecd-x86-4.5.0.iso to a 1GB stick. > > I'll be back if that doesn't work :-) Well it did, but not without one or two hiccups: 1. Booting into SystemRescueCD was very flaky; it only worked about 50% of the tim

Re: [Dorset] Possible DVD Drive Failure

2015-08-15 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday 15 Aug 2015 13:18:10 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Well, meanwhile I'd guess your OS would boot and run faster from > something that has `no' seek time, so it might be better to do that even > when you have a working DVD drive. I'm currently writing systemrescuecd-x86-4.5.0.iso to a 1GB stic

Re: [Dorset] Possible DVD Drive Failure

2015-08-15 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday 15 Aug 2015 13:19:40 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi again Terry, > > > Have you another drive to swap in, or another machine to put this > > drive into? > > You've already tried other disks, I assume? (Andrew's suggestion on > #dorset.) I haven't got one with the right connectivity unle

Re: [Dorset] Possible DVD Drive Failure

2015-08-15 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi again Terry, > Have you another drive to swap in, or another machine to put this > drive into? You've already tried other disks, I assume? (Andrew's suggestion on #dorset.) Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-09-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http:

Re: [Dorset] Possible DVD Drive Failure

2015-08-15 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > > Any chance cables to the DVD drive were knocked? > > I tried removing and reseating them. No change. In any case, I'd > have thought that the machine wouldn't see the drive at all without > good integrity on the connectivity. My TV sat there with standby lit just fine, but would i

Re: [Dorset] Possible DVD Drive Failure

2015-08-15 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday 15 Aug 2015 12:37:50 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Any chance cables to the DVD drive were knocked? I tried removing and reseating them. No change. In any case, I'd have thought that the machine wouldn't see the drive at all without good integrity on the connectivity. > Try `dd if=/dev/

Re: [Dorset] Possible DVD Drive Failure

2015-08-15 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > I then shut down so that I could swap the SATA and power cables from > the SSD to the 320GB disc. Any chance cables to the DVD drive were knocked? > sudo mount -t auto /dev/sro /media/terry > > I get 'mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0'. Try `dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/dev/null bs=2048' an

[Dorset] Possible DVD Drive Failure

2015-08-15 Thread Terry Coles
Hi, As the subject line says, I can't read anything from the DVD Drive. Here is what happened. I was in the process of copying the / and /home partitions from my 1 TB drive to my new SSD Drive and a 320GB 2.5" Drive as I've mentioned elsewhere. As also mentioned I've been using SystemRescueCD

Re: [Dorset] thunderbird refreshing emails.

2015-08-15 Thread Natalie Hooper
Could that link help? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1010895 On 13 August 2015 at 12:22, Peter Merchant wrote: > Annoying problem with T-bird 31.8.0 on Kubuntu. > > I am using it to manage mail from 3 sources - Netscape, Yahoo and Hotmail. > The problem seems to be with Hotmail onl