Graham Watkins wrote:
Hi folks,
My CD writer cannot read Data CDs any more. It either causes Konqueror
to freeze or the entire system to lock up (with Num Lock and Caps Lock lights flashin) requiring a hard reboot.
What has changed lately ? Did you change anything like bios settings? kernel updates? is the desktop icon well set up , can you mount and umount /mnt/cdrom
try, in a terminal with a data disk in drive, mount /mnt cdrom (it's probably mounted already) if so umount /mnt/cdrom then, mount /mnt/cdrom then, ls /mnt/cdrom and see it it reads data.
If it fails maybe the ide cable is not seated properly? not likely because you say it reads data in windblows. I think I would try removing the device form the system after that and remaking it with the CL in fstab but that can be risky.
I'm assuming it has worked in M9.2 before. I just wonder whether the Xwindows display programme may be at fault, because of the konq gui involvement .Do you have any other hangups in other programmes? Is it just the writer when it hangs ?
It has worked before in 9.2 - it's even worked intermittently over the last couple of days. I've changed the cable, but this doesn't seem to make much difference. I've now disabled supermount and am mounting cds manually from cl (I'll have to try my hand at bash scripts to cut down on the typing). Trouble is, when it doesn't work which is at least half the time, it can freeze the system solid. Hard reboots for Linux? That's almost unheard of!!
As regards other programs, mozilla 1.4 crashes a lot and I have a similar cd problem (i.e crashing) when trying to run VMware. Nothing else so drastic as this though.
Have fun.
I'm away for a spell, back in a few days.
John
-- Graham Watkins
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