cdrom

I have a samsung cdrom. The last couple of weeks it quit working or
only partially works. It works great for booting mandrake 10 and
installing. It works great for burning. It just doesn't work trying to
read a cd. I have a cd full of pictures, my vmware disk, windows xp
that it reads a little. On the windows cd it show 3 icons with question
marks where the file name is ususally. I'm at a loss. Anyone have any
ideas? Thanks for your time.
Dave Pomeroy K7DNP South Eastern Washington
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Re: cdrom

At 06:17 AM 10/1/2004 -0700, dave wrote:
>I have a samsung cdrom. The last couple of weeks it quit working or only
>partially works. It works great for booting mandrake 10 and
>installing. It works great for burning. It just doesn't work trying to
>read a cd. I have a cd full of pictures, my vmware disk, windows xp that
>it reads a little. On the windows cd it show 3 icons with question marks
>where the file name is ususally. I'm at a loss. Anyone have any
>ideas? Thanks for your time.
>Dave Pomeroy K7DNP South Eastern Washington


Since you write "It works great for booting mandrake 10 and installing", I
surmise that the failures are associated with a fresh install of Linux.
Please correct me if I am wrong. My immediate thought is that you are using
a kernel that does not support Joliet extensions ... check this in the
kernel source .config file if you can (it's under Filesystems in the "make
menuconfig" menus).

If that's not it, and if no one else comes up with something, you're going
to need to give us a more detailed report about the failures indicating
what else changed contemporaneously with the "quit working", if the drive
reads properly non-Windows CDs written on it, if it works properly under
Windows (I ask this only becaus you mention a Windows XP CD, causing me to
surmise that this system dual boots), and what "reads a little" means with
respect to the "cd full of pictures" you mention.

If all this happened simply out of the blue, with no other changes in your
Linux setup, then I would suspect a hardware problem with the drive. I've
had drives fail before, but the usual symptom I see, under either Linux or
Windows, is a complete inability to read disks (my failed drives were
read-only drives, not RW drives).



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Re: cdrom

Ray and all,
I decided that it must be a hardware problem. I ordered a new burner
and so I will try that. It just happened out of the blue, I haven't
tried it in windows xp as I can't install vmware cause the cd burner
won't read the vmware cd. I should have the new burner in a couple of
days. Thanks for your help and I'll post after I try the new burner.
Dave


Ray Olszewski wrote:

> At 06:17 AM 10/1/2004 -0700, dave wrote:
>
>> I have a samsung cdrom. The last couple of weeks it quit working or
>> only partially works. It works great for booting mandrake 10 and
>> installing. It works great for burning. It just doesn't work trying
>> to read a cd. I have a cd full of pictures, my vmware disk, windows
>> xp that it reads a little. On the windows cd it show 3 icons with
>> question marks where the file name is ususally. I'm at a loss.
>> Anyone have any ideas? Thanks for your time.
>> Dave Pomeroy K7DNP South Eastern Washington
>
>
>
> Since you write "It works great for booting mandrake 10 and
> installing", I surmise that the failures are associated with a fresh
> install of Linux. Please correct me if I am wrong. My immediate
> thought is that you are using a kernel that does not support Joliet
> extensions ... check this in the kernel source .config file if you can
> (it's under Filesystems in the "make menuconfig" menus).
>
> If that's not it, and if no one else comes up with something, you're
> going to need to give us a more detailed report about the failures
> indicating what else changed contemporaneously with the "quit
> working", if the drive reads properly non-Windows CDs written on it,
> if it works properly under Windows (I ask this only becaus you mention
> a Windows XP CD, causing me to surmise that this system dual boots),
> and what "reads a little" means with respect to the "cd full of
> pictures" you mention.
>
> If all this happened simply out of the blue, with no other changes in
> your Linux setup, then I would suspect a hardware problem with the
> drive. I've had drives fail before, but the usual symptom I see, under
> either Linux or Windows, is a complete inability to read disks (my
> failed drives were read-only drives, not RW drives).
>
>
>
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