On 29/08/11 15:20, Aaron wrote:
On Sunday, August 28, 2011 11:03:12 PM Basil Chupin wrote:
Hello
I recently purchased two new DVD burners. Neither of this DVD drive were able to read some DVD R that I burned with my older DVD burner. I am able to read the disk with a windows computer so I do not think there is a problem with the DVD media.
I experienced the same problem with both of the DVD burners. I cannot read the first 271 MB of a disk and then will report an Input/output error for the remaining data.
Have manufactures moved the error handling from the DVD burner to the Windows driver? Did I purchase two bad DVD burners? The first of DVD burner was a Memorex and my current burner is a Plextor PX-L890SA.
Aaron You don't say what is on those DVDs: are they music or video - and with what did you burn them on the old burner. Nor do you say if you could
On 29/08/11 09:35, Aaron wrote: play them on openSUSE with the old DVD cdrom/burner. Thirdly, you don't say how you are trying to read these DVDs: are you trying to play them if they are videos/music or access them using, say, Dolphin.
(If you can 'play/read/ them in Windows sounds very much like they are protected and you don't have the necessary codecs installed to be able to do so.
While I am on this, what do you have the REGION set to on the new burners?)
BC
Hello Thank you for the responses I have tried multiple data disk, on a DVD R media, no scratches. The are backup of my families photos. I burned them on a Plextor PX-870A. They are not copy protected. On each disk I tried the auto mount, if could not access the disk I mounted the disk using the mount command and tried to access the disk from the command line. If there was a problem with the driver then the mailing list would be full of related post. I can access the data from the windows virtual machine running in vmware. I may have a problem with vmware. Thank you Aaron Firstly, as you can see, I have moved your response to the end of the message. Please, do NOT top-post in these mail lists. Either bottom-post or insert your response after the para., or sentence, to which your response relates. Reason for this request is that it makes it easy for people reading this thread to follow the discussion. OK, you left out the answer to one question: which piece of software did you use to burn those data DVDs with the photos and , therefore, on which system did you burn them- Windows or openSUSE? I am asking this because there is something in the back of my mind that I could not read some DVDs/CDs created many years ago using XP because of the different file format used by XP -- but I may be wrong. (Just to be sure, which version of openSUSE are you running and which version of VMware are you using as the client?) BC -- "Facts are stupid things." Ronald Reagan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org