Drive woun't handle CD's

[John Masters]

On 25 Jul 2008, at 19:24, Tom Rausner wrote:

> Hi All.
>
> I have discovered a strange problem with my DVD/CD -drive. I was going
> to burn a CD but the drive couldn't find the disk. I switched to  
> another
> disk a couple of times -no luck.
>
> Then I tried playing a burned CD I've been playing with no problems
> before -no luck. Then I tried a comercial made CD -no luck. Then I
> mounted the drive in hand and got a messsage saying there was no media
> in the drive. Then I put a DVD in the drive -no problems.
>
> Just to be on the safe side I booted the previous kernel, to see if it
> was a bug of some kind in the new one -no luck.
>
> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong ?
>
> It's happening in a "DELL Precision M90"
> The drive is a "Sony DVD+-RW DW-Q58A ATA Device"
> OS is UBUNTU latest version, fully updated.
> Burning software was "Brasero"
> and I tried playing the CD's with "Amarok"
>

My CD/DVD drives last exactly {WARRANTY}+1 day :)

I have tried Sony, Philips, LG, Toshiba and ALL fail shortly after the  
warranty expires. Coincidence? Bad Luck? Or something more sinister?  
Good job Muldur & Scully are making a comeback.

Regards, John
johnmasters at me.com