On Sunday 27 May 2007 18:43, Joe Hart wrote: > -----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
That won't work, as I can't mount the drive. > > ? > > It seems to me that if the drive can play audio CD's then it *should* be > able to read data CD's too. As I said. When I first found that it wouldn't mount data cdroms, I then tried a music cd, and that worked ok, but today I had another go at this problem, and now, neither can I mount data cdroms, or play music cd's. Sadly I think that the drive has gone down the tubes. > > Joe Thanks for the reply Joe. Nigel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
