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I have an Acer Aspire 1522 LMi running 9.3. It has a dual layer DVD-RW drive. I was recently copying some CD's in K3B when it stopped recognizing the CD. I couldn't read any CD's I had on hand. Tried to boot some Knoppix CD's and had no success. I was able to boot the 9.3 DVD. I sent it in to Acer, and they checked it out and replaced the mainboard. I got it back and found that I still couldn't read CD's. Acer support said to try the Acer Recovery CD, which I did. The recovery CD boots fine. I haven't called Acer back (as they will probably say the problem is with my Linux install which they don't support). My initial thought was that their was a problem in the firmware on the DVD drive and it simply would not recognize CD's vs. DVD's. But, now I simply don't know what is wrong. Does anyone have any ideas? Barry
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On Friday 12 August 2005 4:19 pm, Barry Premeaux wrote:
I have an Acer Aspire 1522 LMi running 9.3. It has a dual layer DVD-RW drive. I was recently copying some CD's in K3B when it stopped recognizing the CD. I couldn't read any CD's I had on hand. Tried to boot some Knoppix CD's and had no success. I was able to boot the 9.3 DVD. I sent it in to Acer, and they checked it out and replaced the mainboard. I got it back and found that I still couldn't read CD's. Acer support said to try the Acer Recovery CD, which I did. The recovery CD boots fine. I haven't called Acer back (as they will probably say the problem is with my Linux install which they don't support). My initial thought was that their was a problem in the firmware on the DVD drive and it simply would not recognize CD's vs. DVD's. But, now I simply don't know what is wrong. Does anyone have any ideas?
CD and DVD media vary quite a bit. ALL write once and rewriteable media has a lower level of reflectance than the media used to create commercial disks. If the laser firmware is somehow messed up, the laser isn't tracking properly, or the laser lens isn't clean, you can have the problem(s) you are having. I suspect that Acer simply didn't check the drive out properly. It doesn't matter one bit, or byte, ;) what OS you use......it's a hardware issue....period. Fred -- Planet Earth - a subsidiary of Microsoft. We have no bugs in our software, Never! We do have undocumented added features, that you will find amusing, at no added cost to you, at this time.
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