Karl Larsen wrote: > John Pierce wrote: >> Hello! >> >> 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. >> >> 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. >> > Hi John, it appears that you have DVD drives from 2 different > companies. Odd that this is the case since you bought both computers at > the same time. My experience has been that DVD drives fail exactly like > yours did. I had to throw away one last month because it was getting > worse. So I think it is possible that the drive is bad, I haven't seen anything in this thread that would suggest that the drives are from 2 different companies. Would you care to enlighten me as to how you arrived at that conclusion? I must have missed something. Thanks...
