I have tried several different media types and brands... DVD RM, -R and +R... all exactly the same.
I will see if I can scrounge up a new cable.. doesn't seem logical that a cable can fail after being in a case for... years... and working fine all that time. The cables are not subjected to being moved about etc.
Anyway, I appreciate the suggestions, and will give them al a try and see what happens.
Finally had an opportunity to power down and replace the data cable on the DVD drive... so I have replaced the DVD burner, and the cable... I have installed a new OS (openSUSE 11.0) and tested with other Linux installs (eg Kubuntu 8.04). I have bought a bunch of different brands of DVDRW, DVD+R, and DVD-R to test with. My test ISO is the openSUSE 11.0 i386 DVD ISO which passes the MD5 test and is known to work (I used that ISO to make a bootable USB drive and have installed several systems using that bootable USB drive). So far.. every DVD I've made fails. Before replacing the data cable, the DVDs would fail the media test immediately with a low numbered sector error. Now, I can test almost the whole DVD and at about 90 or 92% it fails with an unreadable sector error. Commercial DVDs I put into the drive before changing the cable could not always be mounted correctly (eg my X-Plane DVD). After replacing the cable all commercial DVDs I tested worked fine. Not sure what else I can do here other than replace the motherboard - something I'm not so keen on doing. No errors are reported during the burn since replacing the cable... but the result is still a failed DVD. So.. at this point... I give up on being able to burn DVDs on this hardware (even though at least when I had 10.2 installed I had zero problems burning DVDs with this hardware) unless someone has an "a-ha" moment and has another suggestion. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org