Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4054 mails)

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On Sunday 01 January 2006 08:12, Hans du Plooy wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 15:07 +0100, James Mohr wrote:
> > I am having trouble reading DVD written by K3b in the same drive as I
> > write them. I am using the default version that comes with SUSE 10
> > (0.12.3) with the version that came with SuSE 9.2, I did not have this
> > problem.
>
> James, I have the same problem, although not just DVDs written with k3b
> (I have since upgraded to the packman version), but DVDs and CDs in
> general.
>
> The problem is a bit deeper.  For some reason the devices for the DVD
> and CD drives disappear.  For example, I have a DVD-RW on /dev/hda and a
> CD-RW on /dev/hdc (hard drive is SATA hence on sda).  On a cold boot,
> both drives work, but after say, a day, I can no longer read discs
> anymore, and if I check in /dev, the hda and hdc entries are gone.
>
> Usually, doing rmmod ide_cd and rmmod cdrom, and then modprobe ide_cd
> and modprobe cdrom sorts it out, but not always.
>
> This is only in SUSE 10, and seems limited either to certain hardware.
> or to the 32bit edition.  I haven't had this issue with SUSE 10.0 64-bit
> on my notebook, but both my home PC and work PC (both AthonXP with VIA
> based boards and the exact same LG DVD-RW) give this problem.  Then
> again, on my old notebook (Pentium-3) I didn't have this problem, but
> that was SUSE 10.0-rc (the openSUSE version).
>
> Hope this helps
> Hans
 I had similar problems when writing CDs, on a boot the drive was there and 
would function, later the drive would disappear. I finally decided to replace 
the drive, all problems went away. I did have problems reading some of the 
CDs I made, but originally thought I just had a couple of bad disks.
Mike..