On 01 May 2008, Alan Bartlett ajb.stxsl at googlemail.com wrote:
Thu May 1 12:45:38 UTC 2008
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(a) The Teac DV-516D DVD/CD reader is not supported in this kernel or somewhere else in CentOS 5. or
(b) The DVD/CD reader is somewhat faulty.
(c) However, Windows XP shows it to be "OK" and I can see the contents of the FC6 install DVD OK, in Windoze. Also, I can boot from the CentOS5 and FC6 Install DVD's, without any problem. And, I was able to mount the FC6 Install DVD, in a terminal and install the RPM I wanted to install, without any problems. Thank you, very much, for your time and ideas!
Lanny - Thanks for the update. I would recommend, therefore, that you replace the CD/DVD-ROM with a modern DVD writer that can cope with CD-RW/DVD-RW/DVD+RW, etc, formats. When I refurbished this workstation, a Dell OptiPlex GX1 (manufactured last quarter 1999 :-D ), I replaced its original CD-ROM drive with a multi-format AOpen DVD/CD rewritable optical drive, model no. DUW1616L and have had absolutely no problem with it at all. I seem to recall it cost me UK£41-00. However once you've done the conversion at the current exchange rate, I don't know if you will think that is good value - or not.
As for all mentions of Windoze, I would trust/believe that about as far as I could spit into a high wind!
Alan: Thank you for all of the ideas you've had in this thread! I strongly suspect that your idea of replacing the Teac CD/DVD-ROM with something else, is the only way to end this problem. My belief now is that there is no support to auto mount a DVD in that Teac drive, in CentOS 5. Probably, when it was my box and it worked OK, it was with a prior release of CentOS or Fedora Core and something has changed and the auto mount support for that drive (for DVD media) was removed. I rarely use Windoze, but it was very helpful, to be able to test the same CD/DVD-ROM drive and verify that it works perfectly under Windoze. I was able to mount the DVD in a terminal and install the RPM I wanted to install OK, so that also makes me believe the drive is OK. Lanny
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 08:50 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
On 01 May 2008, Alan Bartlett ajb.stxsl at googlemail.com wrote:
Thu May 1 12:45:38 UTC 2008
<snip> > > (a) The Teac DV-516D DVD/CD reader is not supported in this kernel or > > somewhere else in CentOS 5. or > > > > (b) The DVD/CD reader is somewhat faulty. > > > > (c) However, Windows XP shows it to be "OK" and I can see the contents > > of the FC6 install DVD OK, in Windoze. Also, I can boot from the CentOS5 > > and FC6 Install DVD's, without any problem. And, I was able to mount the > > FC6 Install DVD, in a terminal and install the RPM I wanted to install, > > without any problems. Thank you, very much, for your time and ideas! > > > Lanny - Thanks for the update. I would recommend, therefore, that you > replace the CD/DVD-ROM with a modern DVD writer that can cope with > CD-RW/DVD-RW/DVD+RW, etc, formats. When I refurbished this workstation, a > Dell OptiPlex GX1 (manufactured last quarter 1999 :-D ), I replaced its > original CD-ROM drive with a multi-format AOpen DVD/CD rewritable optical > drive, model no. DUW1616L and have had absolutely no problem with it at all. > I seem to recall it cost me UK£41-00. However once you've done the > conversion at the current exchange rate, I don't know if you will think that > is good value - or not. > > As for all mentions of Windoze, I would trust/believe that about as far as I > could spit into a high wind!
Alan: Thank you for all of the ideas you've had in this thread! I strongly suspect that your idea of replacing the Teac CD/DVD-ROM with something else, is the only way to end this problem. My belief now is that there is no support to auto mount a DVD in that Teac drive, in CentOS 5. Probably, when it was my box and it worked OK, it was with a prior release of CentOS or Fedora Core and something has changed and the auto mount support for that drive (for DVD media) was removed. I rarely use Windoze, but it was very helpful, to be able to test the same CD/DVD-ROM drive and verify that it works perfectly under Windoze. I was able to mount the DVD in a terminal and install the RPM I wanted to install OK, so that also makes me believe the drive is OK. Lanny
Something I don't think no one has thought of:
[root@ethan ~]# rpm -qa | grep auto automake15-1.5-16 autoconf-2.59-12 automake17-1.7.9-7 automake-1.9.6-2.1 automake16-1.6.3-8 automake14-1.4p6-13 autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.55.el5.3
Make sure you autofs installed: autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.55.el5.3
Other than that, that's about all....
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On 01/05/2008, John jses27@gmail.com wrote:
Something I don't think no one has thought of:
[root@ethan ~]# rpm -qa | grep auto automake15-1.5-16 autoconf-2.59-12 automake17-1.7.9-7 automake-1.9.6-2.1 automake16-1.6.3-8 automake14-1.4p6-13 autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.55.el5.3
Make sure you autofs installed: autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.55.el5.3
I don't think that's it. This is from my system, which behaves as Lanny wants:
$ rpm -qa auto* | sort autoconf-2.59-12 automake14-1.4p6-13 automake15-1.5-16 automake16-1.6.3-8 automake17-1.7.9-7 automake-1.9.6-2.1 $
No autofs!
Alan.
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 15:43 +0100, Alan Bartlett wrote:
On 01/05/2008, John jses27@gmail.com wrote: Something I don't think no one has thought of:
[root@ethan ~]# rpm -qa | grep auto automake15-1.5-16 autoconf-2.59-12 automake17-1.7.9-7 automake-1.9.6-2.1 automake16-1.6.3-8 automake14-1.4p6-13 autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.55.el5.3 Make sure you autofs installed: autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.55.el5.3I don't think that's it. This is from my system, which behaves as Lanny wants:
$ rpm -qa auto* | sort autoconf-2.59-12 automake14-1.4p6-13 automake15-1.5-16 automake16-1.6.3-8 automake17-1.7.9-7 automake-1.9.6-2.1 $
No autofs!
Alan.
Puzziling, maybe just get a new dvd drive.
Would be interesting to know if when he accesses Win$ (Double Clicks MyComputer) if the system crashes or when he double clicks on the dvd drive in mycomputer would be a big indicator of the drive being bad or if it takes a long time to access the drive. All the icons on the desktop will dissapear when it crashes.
Another thing Right Click on My Computer Select Manage and look at the logs for the dvd drive in question. You should see errors there if it's bad. Also like someone else said it will only auto mount on a user account and not root.
If it's not any of the above get a new drive.
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