On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Stephen Irons <[email protected]>wrote:
> The DVD-RW drive in my laptop is partially faulty: > > * It cannot read or write CDs -- it just sits there going clonk > every two seconds -- pre-recorded music CDs, recorded data CD-R, > blank CR-R, makes no difference. It does this even when I have > entered the BIOS setup at power on, so it seems to be the drive > itself, not related to software. > * it plays pre-recorded movie DVDs correctly. I have not tried > writing DVDs of any type, or tried reading self-burned /DVD[+-]RW?/ > > For reference, it is an NEC ND-6550A. > I've sadly seen those symptoms in relatively new laptops sadly (albeit, rentals). Couldn't install linux with a CD/RW but could with a DVDRW. -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA nocomil.i...@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );"
