I have a samsung cdrom. The last couple of weeks it quit working or only partially works. It works great for booting mandrake 10 and installing. It works great for burning. It just doesn't work trying to read a cd. I have a cd full of pictures, my vmware disk, windows xp that it reads a little. On the windows cd it show 3 icons with question marks where the file name is ususally. I'm at a loss. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks for your time.
Dave Pomeroy K7DNP South Eastern Washington
Since you write "It works great for booting mandrake 10 and installing", I surmise that the failures are associated with a fresh install of Linux. Please correct me if I am wrong. My immediate thought is that you are using a kernel that does not support Joliet extensions ... check this in the kernel source .config file if you can (it's under Filesystems in the "make menuconfig" menus).
If that's not it, and if no one else comes up with something, you're going to need to give us a more detailed report about the failures indicating what else changed contemporaneously with the "quit working", if the drive reads properly non-Windows CDs written on it, if it works properly under Windows (I ask this only becaus you mention a Windows XP CD, causing me to surmise that this system dual boots), and what "reads a little" means with respect to the "cd full of pictures" you mention.
If all this happened simply out of the blue, with no other changes in your Linux setup, then I would suspect a hardware problem with the drive. I've had drives fail before, but the usual symptom I see, under either Linux or Windows, is a complete inability to read disks (my failed drives were read-only drives, not RW drives).
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