On 26 April 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:
Message: 11 Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:57:25 +0100 From: Anne Wilson cannewilson@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch? To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Message-ID: 200804261657.25885.cannewilson@googlemail.com
<snip> The support page for the Dell Dimension 4300 is dated 2001. If that's the approximate age, it's quite possible that it doesn't read DVDs. My Packard Bell of similar age sometimes can read one, sometimes can't, but it's not really supposed to, I think.
Anne: This is something that worked fine, for several years. It was my box, before my daughter got it, and I used the DVD drive, without problems. That it works OK in MS Windows XP and that I can boot the box from the same DVD, without problems, has me leaning more toward a problem with CentOS 5 Mounting the DVD, in that box. If it is a HW problem, I would think the problem would also appear in Windows and when I boot from that DVD. However, that it works OK, in 2 other Desktops, would possibly indicate a HW problem in that box. TIA, Lanny
On Sunday 27 April 2008 13:38:50 Lanny Marcus wrote:
On 26 April 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:
Message: 11 Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:57:25 +0100 From: Anne Wilson cannewilson@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch? To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Message-ID: 200804261657.25885.cannewilson@googlemail.com
<snip> The support page for the Dell Dimension 4300 is dated 2001. If that's the approximate age, it's quite possible that it doesn't read DVDs. My Packard Bell of similar age sometimes can read one, sometimes can't, but it's not really supposed to, I think.
Anne: This is something that worked fine, for several years. It was my box, before my daughter got it, and I used the DVD drive, without problems. That it works OK in MS Windows XP and that I can boot the box from the same DVD, without problems, has me leaning more toward a problem with CentOS 5 Mounting the DVD, in that box. If it is a HW problem, I would think the problem would also appear in Windows and when I boot from that DVD. However, that it works OK, in 2 other Desktops, would possibly indicate a HW problem in that box. TIA, Lanny
Hmm - do you have one of those disks with the micro-brushes that you use to clean the lens of a DVD drive? It could be nothing worse than that. I don't know what she used it for under XP, but if it was for reading commercial disks they are undoubtably easier to read than home-burned ones, and its possible that the linux driver is not as good either. OTOH, it could be something quite different :-)
Anne
Anne
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 10:03 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?
On Sunday 27 April 2008 13:38:50 Lanny Marcus wrote:
On 26 April 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:
Message: 11 Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:57:25 +0100 From: Anne Wilson cannewilson@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch? To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Message-ID: 200804261657.25885.cannewilson@googlemail.com
<snip> The support page for the Dell Dimension 4300 is dated 2001. If that's the approximate age, it's quite possible that it doesn't read
DVDs.
My Packard Bell of similar age sometimes can read one, sometimes can't, but it's not really supposed to, I think.
Anne: This is something that worked fine, for several years. It was my box, before my daughter got it, and I used the DVD drive, without problems. That it works OK in MS Windows XP and that I can boot the box from the same DVD, without problems, has me leaning more toward a problem with CentOS 5 Mounting the DVD, in that box. If it is a HW problem, I would think the problem would also appear in Windows and when I boot from that DVD. However, that it works OK, in 2 other Desktops, would possibly indicate a HW problem in that box. TIA, Lanny
Hmm - do you have one of those disks with the micro-brushes that you use to clean the lens of a DVD drive? It could be nothing worse than that. I don't know what she used it for under XP, but if it was for reading commercial disks they are undoubtably easier to read than home-burned ones, and its possible that the linux driver is not as good either. OTOH, it could be something quite different :-)
Anne ----------------------------
Did you do a mount /dev/hdc /mnt/media?
I have yet to get a DVD to read in CentOS 5. I can install from DVD and then reboot and then the DVD drive is no longer accessible. It works with several live CD and DVD images with no problems however. This is on an HP system. I think it is an OS problem.
I will test in some other systems and let you know my results.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Lanny Marcus Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 7:39 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?
On 26 April 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:
Message: 11 Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:57:25 +0100 From: Anne Wilson cannewilson@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch? To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Message-ID: 200804261657.25885.cannewilson@googlemail.com
<snip> The support page for the Dell Dimension 4300 is dated 2001. If that's the approximate age, it's quite possible that it doesn't read DVDs. My Packard Bell of similar age sometimes can read one, sometimes can't, but it's not really supposed to, I think.
Anne: This is something that worked fine, for several years. It was my box, before my daughter got it, and I used the DVD drive, without problems. That it works OK in MS Windows XP and that I can boot the box from the same DVD, without problems, has me leaning more toward a problem with CentOS 5 Mounting the DVD, in that box. If it is a HW problem, I would think the problem would also appear in Windows and when I boot from that DVD. However, that it works OK, in 2 other Desktops, would possibly indicate a HW problem in that box. TIA, Lanny
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