CD drive fails to show contents -- How to solve it? -- Clarification

[Robin Laing]

Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear friends:
> 
> I did install my Scientific Linux system from data CD's, using my 
> CD/CDWriter drive (hdc). But now it turns out that I cannot transfer any 
> of my data files from a data CD to my computer using my CD/CDWriter 
> drive. I can only do it using my DVD drive, whose contents show up 
> correctly in File Manager.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Benjamin
> 

What make and models of drives, please?  This could help resolve the 
issue quicker.

I can only agree that the drive cannot support the media.  Note, there 
is an issue with CD-RW's that I only learned about a few weeks ago and 
being able to be written/read in certain drives and this has to do 
with the speed of the drive.

For the cost of CD's, it isn't work the cost of CD-RW's anymore, 
except for test burns.

-- 
Robin Laing