Hi,

My DVD/CW RW drive has stopped functioning under Fedora Core 6. It was working fine; reading and writing to CDs and DVDs.

Here is what appears in /var/log/messages when I try to use mplayer to play a DVD:
The same appears if I try to
# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /media/cdrom
but I only get one repeat of it (not several)

Here is what the system picks up at boot:
# dmesg|grep hd
I have tested this drive by running Knoppix on the PC with it. Knoppix runs happily. I have not tried swapping drives with another PC as yet.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Sounds like a hardware problem. Without going into the error messages, working fine, then all of sudden, no reason, stops working. I would swap it into another computer and see if it works before I drive myself crazy.

Thanks for your response. I'll give this a try at the weekend. I really hope you're wrong as that DVD ROM drive is only just over a year old!

If you have another IDE channel use that instead. If you can not, try replacing the cable with a new one. If it still does not work, check to see if your kernel has multimode for IDE drives enabled.

Hi,

Thanks both of you for your responses. I got Kubuntu installed on this machine over the weekend and CD/DVD access works fine on that.

However, there are still references in the boot messages to this error so I think it's more likely to be a hardware problem and I need to eliminate the CDROM drive sooner rather than later. This is the second ASUS motherboard I have had in that machine! and this one only has *one* IDE channel. GRRRR.

Interesting thing is that if I unplug the CD drive, it wont find the hard disk, but I think this may be me setting the HD jumper to "master w/ slave present" causing that, as the hard disk is IDE not SATA

Never mind, like I said it's *not* a Linux problem, but more likely to be hardware based.

Thanks again for your time on this matter.