On 2024-09-25 21:09, Mark Misulich wrote:
Hi, I have built up a new computer and the DVD RW doesn't recognize DVDs. I have tried it with a commercially written DVD, and with a blank DVD +RW. The player spins and tries to recognize the DVD without success until it times out and stops spinning.
The other player on this computer is a Blu-Ray RW player that I salvaged from a computer my neighbor threw out in the trash. When I put a commercially written DVD or a blank DVD in the Blu-ray player it is recognized, and a written disc is recognized as the source disc in K3b. But no disc is ever recognized in the DVD RW player as the destination.
So you have two drives. One is a a Blu-ray rw player obtained from the trash, that works (at least it reads). The other is is a DVD RW drive that doesn't read. The second unit is it new with the computer, or old, 15 year old as it appear you say in another post? Did it work in the previous computer? You could try cleaning the lenses. Or try a different OS. For example, try the XFCE rescue live image from Leap. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)