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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: Re: DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch? > > To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Message-ID: <200804261657.25885.cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > <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
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