-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nigel Henry wrote: > I've got a Sony CD-RW CRX230E on this machine, which until recently appeared > to be working ok. Now I'm getting a "No Media Found" when trying to mount a > data CD. When I first noticed this, I tried an audio cd, and that played ok, > but now I find that the cdplayer just says "no disc". Neither can I boot live > cd's now, even though the cdrom is first to boot from. > > The drive is detected in the BIOS as master on IDE1, which is correct, and > dmesg shows that it's there on IRQ15, and KDE's info lists a load of > different stuff about the drive. > > I havn't changed the cable yet, just unplugged, and replugged it from both > ends. When I put a disc in the green light comes on for a bit, and there is a > touch of HD activity, and another couple of flickers of the light. > > Is there some CLI tool in Debian Etch, or Lenny that I can use to thoroughly > check out the cdrom drive? > > Thanks for any suggestions, including telling me that the darned thing has > died. >
I don't know if this will help you or not, but keep in mind that the Linux kernel treats all devices like files, so you can just open a terminal and cd to the CD (pun). Usually it will be /media/cdrom which is a symlink to /media/cdrom0. In older systems it was always /mnt/cdrom, but whatever it is, it doesn't really matter. Can you ls the files on the data cd by doing: ls /media/cdrom ? It seems to me that if the drive can play audio CD's then it *should* be able to read data CD's too. Joe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGWbVPiXBCVWpc5J4RAkH0AJ9iuQaTA62wBYSbabDXPTLDzNutSwCeM92r nbuHSYFZUP2RD/BzkXf1sHI= =w2ft -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
