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. Here's some info to begin with as I tried to troubleshoot this: # dmesg | grep -E -i --color 'cdrom|dvd|cd/rw|writer' [ 1.846359] [ T732] ata5.00: ATAPI: TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223L, SB02, max UDMA/100 [ 1.848860] [ T187] scsi 4:0:0:0: CD-ROM TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223L SB02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 2.152487] [ T584] sr 4:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray [ 2.152489] [ T584] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 [ 2.324886] [ T584] sr 5:0:0:0: [sr1] scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray # more /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info CD-ROM information, Id: cdrom.c 3.20 2003/12/17 drive name: sr1 sr0 drive speed: 48 48 drive # of slots: 1 1 Can close tray: 1 1 Can open tray: 1 1 Can lock tray: 1 1 Can change speed: 1 1 Can select disk: 0 0 Can read multisession: 1 1 Can read MCN: 1 1 Reports media changed: 1 1 Can play audio: 1 1 Can write CD-R: 1 1 Can write CD-RW: 1 1 Can read DVD: 1 1 Can write DVD-R: 1 1 Can write DVD-RAM: 1 1 Can read MRW: 0 1 Can write MRW: 0 1 Can write RAM: 1 1 I pared this to just the players # lsblk sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom sr1 11:1 1 2.2G 0 rom I know only enough to check and see if the player is recognized by the system (Tumbleweed), I'll need some help to go farther. Thanks, Mark
It's an old dvd player from a previous computer. It could be 15-20 years old. On 9/25/24 5:23 PM, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 2024-09-25 13:09, Mark Misulich wrote:
Hi,
I know only enough to check and see if the player is recognized by the system (Tumbleweed), I'll need some help to go farther.
Thanks, Mark How about just getting an RMA and exchange it?
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
Am 25.09.24 um 23:35 schrieb Mark Misulich:
It's an old dvd player from a previous computer. It could be 15-20 years old.
On 9/25/24 5:23 PM, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 2024-09-25 13:09, Mark Misulich wrote:
Hi,
I know only enough to check and see if the player is recognized by the system (Tumbleweed), I'll need some help to go farther.
Thanks, Mark How about just getting an RMA and exchange it?
have you tried with a music-cd? (there is less data on same space, if its a problem of dirt, it could be that this will be read) did you tried it in a other computer / or was it (at the moment, not some years in past) working in the old computer? sometimes it helps to clean the lens of the drive. i have had somewhere in past a cd with a brush stuck on it. but could maybe also done also by hand. simoN -- www.becherer.de
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)
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