On Sunday 27 May 2007 18:54, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 04:39:54PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > > 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. > > Is there anything interesting in dmesg after you try to mount a disk? > (the disks you are trying are known to be good?) > > Regards, > Andrei
I think the drive is knackered. I open a terminal, and do, tail -f /var/log/messages, and after putting in a disc, run in another terminal. $ mount /cdrom, which is the path. ?var/log/messages gives me a one liner. cdrom: open failed and on the other terminal using the mount command, I get. "mount: No medium found", which is the same as when I try to mount the drive using Kdiskfree. I have a new drive ordered, and will try and find a new ribbon cable to try in the meantime, but I don't think that's the problem, as normally the covers only off the machine when I clean out the dust. I only asked the question, as I thought there might be a diagnostic tool that could interrogate the cdrom drive to see if all was ok. # cdrecord --devices seems to show the drive as available. I know these drives are cheap, but it just seems strange that it should take a dive when it's not being used, or perhaps when I tried to use it, it took the dive!!! The disks are ok. I tried various data disks, and music cd's that I know are ok. Anyway. A new drive should arrive tomorrow or tuesday, and hopefully a few euros will have fixed the problem. Thanks for the reply. It's appreciated. Nigel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
