On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 10:57 +1300, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote: > > > > Are the DVDs that you're trying good ones? I've seen a lot of discs > > that are really poor, and only some that are good (this is with blank > > discs for your own burning purposes). > > > > There are some tools (lsdvd, if I recall correctly), which can give a > > report on the disc that it reads. Might be worth trying it. > > These are rented movies dvd's... All worked fine at the store when I > took them back, and I rented some more, same thing, some will work, > and the others don't > > lsdvd is not much use if fedora does not recognize that there is a > disk in the drive. > > I would have thought if the drive it's self was failing then the > reading of discs would be intermitent, but as it stands the drive will > either always read the disc or always fail to see the disc. I thought > it mightr have been a region code problem, but all the discs I have > been using are from the same region. It seems to simply ignore some > and accept others. > > -- > Rob I was having basically the same problem with a DVD player in my machine (FC4 now FC6), replaced the drive and everything has been fine since. I've seen a number of DVD drives fail but rarely a CD drive. Fred
