On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 16:02 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > >From time to time, I have serious problems with reading data DVD > disks. Now, I try to copy a file from a mounted (automatically) disk > to the Desktop (KDE), and the the process is stalled for ages, with no > progress. Any ideas? When will Linux reach the MS Windows' performance > regarding CD/DVDs? > > Thanks in advance, If you have sata drives and your dvd was recognized as /dev/sda or sdb or whatever, be looking for messages regarding /dev/hd? which seems to be creeping in. For the longest time, sata drives had problems, now they work really good, so someone has to bugger them back to not running so good. My dvd movies are now jerky as hell, which really jerks me off in kind. I wish they would leave that which works, alone! when there is so much other broken stuff to contend with. Here's the wayward4now maxim: -"Power and Authority has an equal and attendant amount of Responsibility."- Feel free to quote that to your grandkids, you read it here first. So, Fedora Reps. Please leave the kernel drive changes alone until such time as a complete Fedora Installation warrants the changes. It's SCREWING UP MY SYSTEM! Ric rant #2 What happened to /boot/grub? Mine disappeared off of the drive. I was looking in /etc when I noticed the brown blinking broken link to /boot/grub/grub.conf. Damn thing was gone. I looked!! I looked at the Big Board! CRM-114 Discriminator problem again. So, I removed the 2157 kernel with rpm -e --nodeps, re-installed it via yum install. The rpm -e'd my nVidia stuff and reinstalled it again. Booted perfectly. What gives here folks? Somewhere in the packages or that damn webcam thingie, something broke. Ripping out the kernel by the spinal cord got rid of anything weird. Re-installing pristine, make it all better. Beats the living hell out of me WHY, but that is the how, according to my perceptions. -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ...the Sin of Ignorance, and ...the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
