[arch-general] DVD's won't read

Nilesh Govindarajan lists at itech7.com
Thu Mar 18 16:14:43 CET 2010


On 03/18/2010 07:46 PM, Nicolás Reynolds wrote:
> jue, mar 18, 2010 at 06:07:20 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan dijo:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm experiencing this problem from quite a long time. But I don't know why.
>>
>> I have a LG DVD Writer. It supports writing and reading DVD-R DVD+R
>> DVD-RW DVD+RW, all CDs and some other DVD flavors I don't remember.
>>
>> I tried a Fedora boot DVD at boot, it worked. But inside arch (it
>> was the same problem with fedora), it won't work.
>>
>> I don't think this needs any special driver because previously I'd
>> never configured a special driver for that.
>>
>> CD's work fine though.
>
> it's sata or ide? when i started using linux i had to change the 40
> "strings" ide cable to one of 80, due to troubles while reading/writing
> dvds...
>
> hope this helps :)
>

Its connected by IDE now. I have a SATA converter with me though. Should 
I use that for my drive ?

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