DVD Burner permission question
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Tue Jun 26 00:56:48 UTC 2007
John Pierce wrote:
> I have two hp pavilion laptops, both are the same machines purchased
> the same day. I had opensuse 10.2 on both and then switched to fedora
> 7. Now the machine that my wife uses will not burn a dvd, it will
> burn cd and cdrw discs but not a dvd. I figured that the drive went
> bad and I called hp tech support, they told me it was a configuration
> issue not hardware since it will burn cd and not dvd.
First, I had a similar experience not to long ago with a Pioneer CD/DVD
drive in one of my servers. I replaced the drive and everything is OK now.
So, I'm a bit skeptical of what HP is telling you.
Second, are you getting any errors when you attempt to burn the DVD? It
would be helpful to know what they are.
>
> I did an ls -al of /dev/scd0 on my machine (the one that still burns
> dvds) and this was the result:
>
> brw-rw----+ 1 eagle1 disk 11, 0 2007-06-24 17:50 /dev/scd0
>
> I then did the same on my wifes computer (the one that will not burn a
> dvd) and this was the result:
>
> brw-------+ 1 panda1 disk 11, 0 2007-06-24 20:56 /dev/scd0
>
> I only see one small difference in the two listings, could this be the
> problem of why it will not burn a dvd disc? Or, should I be more
> insistent on have the hardware replaced?
>
> It does seem strange that it worked fine until I switched to fedora 7
> from opensuse 10.2.
>
> Any thoughts, suggestions, ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
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