John Pierce wrote:
Hello!
I have two hp pavilion laptops, both are the same machines purchased
the same day. I had opensuse 10.2 on both and then switched to fedora
7. Now the machine that my wife uses will not burn a dvd, it will
burn cd and cdrw discs but not a dvd. I figured that the drive went
bad and I called hp tech support, they told me it was a configuration
issue not hardware since it will burn cd and not dvd.
I did an ls -al of /dev/scd0 on my machine (the one that still burns
dvds) and this was the result:
brw-rw----+ 1 eagle1 disk 11, 0 2007-06-24 17:50 /dev/scd0
I then did the same on my wifes computer (the one that will not burn a
dvd) and this was the result:
brw-------+ 1 panda1 disk 11, 0 2007-06-24 20:56 /dev/scd0
I only see one small difference in the two listings, could this be the
problem of why it will not burn a dvd disc? Or, should I be more
insistent on have the hardware replaced?
It does seem strange that it worked fine until I switched to fedora 7
from opensuse 10.2.
Any thoughts, suggestions, ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Hi John, it appears that you have DVD drives from 2 different
companies. Odd that this is the case since you bought both computers at
the same time. My experience has been that DVD drives fail exactly like
yours did. I had to throw away one last month because it was getting
worse. So I think it is possible that the drive is bad,
To get a replacement free you need to swap the drives and see that
it fails too in your computer, or not. You learn a lot.
Karl
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