On 9/25/24 6:02 PM, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 2024-09-25 15:35, Mark Misulich wrote:
It's an old dvd player from a previous computer. It could be 15-20 years old.
That's probably your answer, then -- it's just outlived itself. Just get a replacement.
I took your advice and got a new RW unit. That fixed the problem. It corresponds to the maxim, "Oh, that's easy to fix. It just takes money!" I still have the old DVD RW unit, I'll have to do some disassembly to try to clean it to put in a second computer that is starting to have problems copying DVDs. That will determine for sure whether its a software driver problem, or the equipment function degrading with dust on the lens, or the unit failing from age. On one computer I had built maybe 15-20 years ago, I had to change the DVD drive to a new unit to install the latest version of OpenSuse. The original DVD drive was old and it seemed that the driver for it wasn't contained in OpenSuse anymore. It had worked on the previous version of OpenSuse. That was what prompted this thread, I wanted to check with the list to see if it was a software problem or a hardware problem. Thanks for everyone's help. Mark