On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 13:42 -0500, Doug Maurer wrote: > > same here. > > Sometimes I get can't recognize CDROM drive, sometimes it's ok. > > I was able to have the booted image do a checksum check of the dvd and it > > passed ok. > > It was ever so helpful - on a few occasions to start the update, > > remove old kernel's, install the new one, then Die in the middle on > > some random rpm with a cdrom read error. If you tried > > to continue the process, after one or two tries it would read that package > > and then fail on another. Eventually it would lock up the whole system. > > I was previously running FC1 and FC1 had no issues reading or writing dvd's, > > so I don't think the hardware suddenly broke. > > > > steve > > > > > After installing fc3 Wednesday I wanted a second copy of FC3 cd's, so I > put a blank cd in my dvd/cdrom burner and launched k3b. Only one > problem, k3b didn't see a cdrom. I check the /media directory and no > cdrecorder. I was like ok let me reboot with option ide=nodma. This time > I had cdrecorder, but one of the errors I got from k3b was to check > permissions on /dev/hd#, my cdrom was on hdd, and it had rwxr_xr_x > on /dev/hdd I chmod 777 on hdd and k3b was happy again. > > strange little gremlins running around > -- > Doug Maurer > doug@xxxxxxxxxxx > Linux user #299439 > I believe that is the UDEV error. Go to the FC3 release notes on the web site and it has a link to the latest UDEV. hope that helps. -- =Guy 13:44:58 up 17:09, 2 users, load average: 0.80, 0.63, 0.66