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

[Roberto Malinverni]

> >> 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 ?

Nope. If it is a ide device, just check that your ide cable is of the type
with 80 conductors.
Take a look at the images here, to see the difference between a 40 and a 80
conductor cable (both have 40 pin).
My NEC DVDRW refused to work without such a cable.
Roberto


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