Re: CLI tools for checking out CDROM drive

2007-05-28 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 28 May 2007 14:47, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Monday 28 May 2007 00:24, Hugh Lawson wrote: > >> Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> I mean we're not talking about big bucks here. It's just annoying when > >>> s

Re: CLI tools for checking out CDROM drive

2007-05-28 Thread KS
Joerg Schilling wrote: > > If you do not get an error mesasage with cdrecord --devices, you > are using a fake program but definitely not cdrecord. > rather than confusing the person more with the information that (s)he is using a *fake program*, here is some more helpful information. fake progr

Re: CLI tools for checking out CDROM drive

2007-05-28 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nigel Henry wrote: > On Monday 28 May 2007 00:24, Hugh Lawson wrote: >> Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I mean we're not talking about big bucks here. It's just annoying when >>> something stops working for no apparent reason. >> I may have

Re: CLI tools for checking out CDROM drive

2007-05-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
>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. Cdrecord does not have a --devices option: Calling this commandline will pass "ices" to the dev= o

Re: CLI tools for checking out CDROM drive

2007-05-27 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 28 May 2007 00:24, Hugh Lawson wrote: > Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I mean we're not talking about big bucks here. It's just annoying when > > something stops working for no apparent reason. > > I may have missed an earlier post, but here goes anyway. > > I had the same pr

Re: CLI tools for checking out CDROM drive

2007-05-27 Thread Hugh Lawson
Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I mean we're not talking about big bucks here. It's just annoying when > something stops working for no apparent reason. I may have missed an earlier post, but here goes anyway. I had the same problem a few days ago. I opened up the computer and presse

Re: CLI tools for checking out CDROM drive

2007-05-27 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 27 May 2007 22:28, Wayne Topa wrote: > Nigel Henry([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > On Sunday 27 May 2007 19:21, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > > > On Sun, 27 May 2007 16:39:54 +0200 > > > > > > Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've got a Sony CD-RW CRX230E on thi

Re: CLI tools for checking out CDROM drive

2007-05-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Nigel Henry([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Sunday 27 May 2007 19:21, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > > On Sun, 27 May 2007 16:39:54 +0200 > > > > Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've got a Sony CD-RW CRX230E on this machine, which until recently > > > appeared to be workin

Re: CLI tools for checking out CDROM drive

2007-05-27 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 27 May 2007 19:21, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > On Sun, 27 May 2007 16:39:54 +0200 > > Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 d

Re: CLI tools for checking out CDROM drive

2007-05-27 Thread Nigel Henry
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

Re: CLI tools for checking out CDROM drive

2007-05-27 Thread Nigel Henry
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 dri

Re: CLI tools for checking out CDROM drive

2007-05-27 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sun, 27 May 2007 16:39:54 +0200 Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 th

Re: CLI tools for checking out CDROM drive

2007-05-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
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 t

Re: CLI tools for checking out CDROM drive

2007-05-27 Thread Joe Hart
-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

CLI tools for checking out CDROM drive

2007-05-27 Thread Nigel Henry
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