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

[Nilesh Govindarajan]

On 03/18/2010 09:32 PM, Roberto Malinverni 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 ?
>
> 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
>
>

My drive has in total only 40 pins. How an 80 pin connector would fit 
into it ?

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