Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2912 mails)

[Sunny <sloncho@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 31 January 2005 23:32, Steve Lett wrote:
> Have just installed SuSE 9.1 Pro after having used 8.2 Pro for a while, but
> don't take that to mean I'm all that brilliant a user...
> All these things worked under 8.2 as I recall.
>
> Sony DW-U18a DVD Burner is recognized by the system and worked very nicely
> to install 9.1 from the DVD's. It works to read my DVD of backed up system
> files.
> Have not yet tried to burn any DVD's with it yet.
>
> It will NOT read:
> 	Audio CD's
> 	burned cd's of data files including simple .txt files or .mp3 files
> When one of these type are installed, it does attempt some read (I can hear
> the drive surging) but eventually it stops and nothing further happens.
>
> I have also installed a CD-ROM device which reads all of the Audio and data
> CD discs with no problem. This time I installed with Grub instead of Lilo,
> no idea why, or why not to do one or the other...just thought I'd try
> something different...
>
> I have no idea where to start to "fix" this.  I'd just as soon leave both
> devices attached, for copying data cd's to DVD for example.  But since it
> seems that the DVD recorder/reader works for DVD's and the CDROM device
> works for CD's I'm loathe to remove the CDROM from the system.
>
> Anyone give me a push regarding where I start with trying to sort out
> something like this?
>
>
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Looks like hw problem with your DVD device. As far as I recall, different 
types (or lengths or whatever) are used for reading dvd, cd-rom, and recorded 
cds. So some part of the device is not working. Try installing this device in 
different machine and try.

Sunny

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