John Pierce wrote: > I have two hp pavilion laptops, both are the same machines purchased > the same day. I had opensuse 10.2 on both and then switched to fedora > 7. Now the machine that my wife uses will not burn a dvd, it will > burn cd and cdrw discs but not a dvd. I figured that the drive went > bad and I called hp tech support, they told me it was a configuration > issue not hardware since it will burn cd and not dvd. First, I had a similar experience not to long ago with a Pioneer CD/DVD drive in one of my servers. I replaced the drive and everything is OK now. So, I'm a bit skeptical of what HP is telling you. Second, are you getting any errors when you attempt to burn the DVD? It would be helpful to know what they are. > > I did an ls -al of /dev/scd0 on my machine (the one that still burns > dvds) and this was the result: > > brw-rw----+ 1 eagle1 disk 11, 0 2007-06-24 17:50 /dev/scd0 > > I then did the same on my wifes computer (the one that will not burn a > dvd) and this was the result: > > brw-------+ 1 panda1 disk 11, 0 2007-06-24 20:56 /dev/scd0 > > I only see one small difference in the two listings, could this be the > problem of why it will not burn a dvd disc? Or, should I be more > insistent on have the hardware replaced? > > It does seem strange that it worked fine until I switched to fedora 7 > from opensuse 10.2. > > Any thoughts, suggestions, ideas would be greatly appreciated. > -- ATM cell has no roaming feature turned on, notebooks can't connect
