DVD Burner permission question

[Ed Greshko]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> John Pierce wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>    Hi John, it appears that you have DVD drives from 2 different
> companies. Odd that this is the case since you bought both computers at
> the same time. My experience has been that DVD drives fail exactly like
> yours did. I had to throw away one last month because it was getting
> worse. So I think it is possible that the drive is bad,

I haven't seen anything in this thread that would suggest that the drives
are from 2 different companies.  Would you care to enlighten me as to how
you arrived at that conclusion?  I must have missed something.

Thanks...