Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-02 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 01 May 2008, John jses27 at gmail.com wrote: Puzzling, maybe just get a new dvd drive. Probably that's the solution Would be interesting to know if when he accesses Win$ (Double Clicks MyComputer) if the system crashes or when he double clicks on the dvd drive in mycomputer would be a big

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 29 April 2008, John jses2 ATgmail.com wrote: Message: 42 Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:43:43 -0400 Message-ID: 006901c8aa42$1a387450$0700a8c0 at ethan27 Also please post you fstab and mtab files. It may be helpful in pointing out the problem. Also have you run yum update on the machine?

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 29 April 2008, Alan Bartlett ajb.stxs AT googlemail.com wrote: Message: 38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip However, if you're using Gnome then please have a look at System -- Preferences -- Removable Drives and Media I know that there is a difference in the automount of a data CD/DVD when

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 30/04/2008, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan: Today, I removed the Teac DV-516D DVD/CD reader, manufactured October 2004, in Japan, from my daughters box. I temporarily hooked it up in my box. The exact same problem! I could not see the contents of a DVD-R, but, I was able to see

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 01 May 2008, Alan Bartlett ajb.stxsl at googlemail.com wrote: Thu May 1 12:45:38 UTC 2008 snip (a) The Teac DV-516D DVD/CD reader is not supported in this kernel or somewhere else in CentOS 5.or (b) The DVD/CD reader is somewhat faulty. (c) However, Windows XP shows it to be

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread John
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 08:50 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On 01 May 2008, Alan Bartlett ajb.stxsl at googlemail.com wrote: Thu May 1 12:45:38 UTC 2008 snip (a) The Teac DV-516D DVD/CD reader is not supported in this kernel or somewhere else in CentOS 5.or (b) The DVD/CD reader is

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 01/05/2008, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something I don't think no one has thought of: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qa | grep auto automake15-1.5-16 autoconf-2.59-12 automake17-1.7.9-7 automake-1.9.6-2.1 automake16-1.6.3-8 automake14-1.4p6-13 autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.55.el5.3 Make sure

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread John
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 15:43 +0100, Alan Bartlett wrote: On 01/05/2008, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something I don't think no one has thought of: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qa | grep auto automake15-1.5-16 autoconf-2.59-12

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 05:49 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On 29 April 2008, John jses2 ATgmail.com wrote: snip I ran yum update. The box is now 100% up to date. The problem did not go away. On CentOS 5, the Teac DV-516D DVD/CD reader can mount a CD, without any problem. However, it sees a

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 01 May 2008, John jses27 at gmail.com wrote: Alan: Thank you for all of the ideas you've had in this thread! I strongly suspect that your idea of replacing the Teac CD/DVD-ROM with something else, is the only way to end this problem. My belief now is that there is no support to auto

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread John
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 15:03 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On 01 May 2008, John jses27 at gmail.com wrote: Alan: Thank you for all of the ideas you've had in this thread! I strongly suspect that your idea of replacing the Teac CD/DVD-ROM with something else, is the only way to end this

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-30 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 29 April 2008, Alan Bartlett ajb.stxsl at googlemail.com wrote: Message: 38 Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:18:00 +0100 From: Alan Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch? Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip Lanny or Bill - Sorry I'm

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-30 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 29 April 2008, John jses2 ATgmail.com wrote Message: 42 Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:43:43 -0400 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well I seen a few post back today but can't tell from heads ot tails what's what of it. I seen where there was Dell in the command prompt machine name?? Yes. Dell

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 28 April 2008, Mike Peterson wrote: Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:27:44 -0500 From: Mike Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch? Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have yet to get a DVD to read in CentOS 5. I can install from DVD

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 27 April 2008, John jses27 at gmail.com wrote: Message: 19 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:22:19 -0400 From: John jses27 AT gmail.com Subject: RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch? Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip Hmm - do you have one of those disks with the micro-brushes

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 10:22 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On 27 April 2008, John jses27 at gmail.com wrote: snip Mike Peterson has the same problem on an HP box. Mine is a Dell Dimension 4300. I believe the DVD reader was not installed in the factory and that I installed it, later, but, I'm not

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 28 April 2008, Mike Peterson mpeterson AT mail.charlesfurniture.com wrote: Message: 21 Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:27:44 -0500 Subject: RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch? To: 'CentOS mailing list' centos@centos.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have yet to get a DVD

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread Alan Bartlett
2008/4/29 Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Did you do a mount /dev/hdc /mnt/media? I tried that but I got this error message: mount point /mnt/media does not exist Having heard my name being mentioned, I'll just say make the mount point, then. I.e. mkdir /mnt/media Have you checked that

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread MHR
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike: I found a *very* recent thread in the web forum of centos.org http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=47249topic_id=13912 Alan Bartlett wrote to: mkdir /mnt/cdrom and thenmount -r -t

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 29 April 2008, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com wrote: CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch? William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com Tue Apr 29 16:07:57 UTC 2008 snip I suspect that somewhere in the auto mount process, it has a problem with the HW

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 29 April 2008, Alan Bartlett ajb.stxsl at googlemail.com wrote: Tue Apr 29 16:39:45 UTC 2008 snip Having heard my name being mentioned, I'll just say make the mount point, then. I.e. mkdir /mnt/media Have you checked that /dev/hdc is the optical drive? grep ^hdc /var/log/dmesg [EMAIL

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 29 April 2008, MHR mhullrich at gmail.com wrote: Tue Apr 29 16:57:24 UTC 2008 I am unclear on which parts of the above post are yours and which are from the thread. Sorry! I am making a mess of my posts. Can you access the contents of the DVD from a command line at all? If so, have you tried

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread Alan Bartlett
2008/4/29 Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# grep ^hdc /var/log/dmesg hdc: DV-516D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: ATAPI 50X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(100) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# Good(-ish). The optical device is there but it's an old combo CD/DVD-ROM drive. Then

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread MHR
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 April 2008, MHR mhullrich at gmail.com wrote: Can you access the contents of the DVD from a command line at all? If so, have you tried doing the rpm install from the command line? Yes. I installed the kdeedu

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 19:24 +0100, Alan Bartlett wrote: 2008/4/29 Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# grep ^hdc /var/log/dmesg hdc: DV-516D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: ATAPI 50X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(100) [EMAIL

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread Alan Bartlett
2008/4/29 William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 19:24 +0100, Alan Bartlett wrote: 2008/4/29 Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# grep ^hdc /var/log/dmesg hdc: DV-516D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: ATAPI 50X DVD-ROM drive,

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 22:18 +0100, Alan Bartlett wrote: 2008/4/29 William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 19:24 +0100, Alan Bartlett wrote: 2008/4/29 Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# grep ^hdc /var/log/dmesg hdc:

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 29 April 2008, Alan Bartlett ajb.stxsl at googlemail.com wrote snip __ 2008/4/29 Lanny Marcus lannyma at gmail.com: [root at dell1602 ~]# grep ^hdc /var/log/dmesg hdc: DV-516D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: ATAPI 50X

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 29 April 2008, Alan Bartlett ajb.stxsl at googlemail.com wrote: 2008/4/29 William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com: On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 19:24 +0100, Alan Bartlett wrote: 2008/4/29 Lanny Marcus lannyma at gmail.com: [root at dell1602 ~]# grep ^hdc /var/log/dmesg hdc:

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 29 April 2008, MHR mhullrich at gmail.com wrote: __ On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Lanny Marcus lannyma at gmail.com wrote: On 29 April 2008, MHR mhullrich at gmail.com wrote: Can you access the contents of the

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 29 April 2008, Alan Bartlett ajb.stxsl at googlemail.com wrote: 2008/4/29 William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com: On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 19:24 +0100, Alan Bartlett wrote: snip in boxes #1 #2 the drives behaves as you want, in box #3 the drive misbehaves. Have you tried the

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-28 Thread Mike Peterson
and let you know my results. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lanny Marcus Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 7:39 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch? On 26 April 2008, Anne Wilson wrote: Message

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-27 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 26 April 2008, Anne Wilson wrote: Message: 11 Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:57:25 +0100 From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch? To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip The support page

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-27 Thread D Steward
On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 16:57 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: ... it's quite possible that it doesn't read DVDs. My Packard Bell of similar age sometimes can read one, sometimes can't, but it's not really supposed to, I think. It will depend upon the DVD drive and the type of DVD. Many DVD-Rom

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-27 Thread John
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 10:03 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch? On Sunday 27 April 2008 13:38:50 Lanny Marcus wrote: On 26 April

[CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-26 Thread Lanny Marcus
Hello: The box is dual boot (Win XP CentOS 5). A Dell Dimension 4300 Celeron. There was an intermittent problem with this last year and last Thanksgiving, I wiped the HD and installed Win XP and CentOS 5 clean. My daughter asked me to install KStars which is in the kdeedu RPM on the Fedora Core

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 26 April 2008 16:35, Lanny Marcus wrote: Hello: The box is dual boot (Win XP CentOS 5). A Dell Dimension 4300 Celeron. There was an intermittent problem with this last year and last Thanksgiving, I wiped the HD and installed Win XP and CentOS 5 clean. My daughter asked me to