On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 09:32 +1300, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
I have a dvd/cdr combo drive...
The problem is some dvd's are not being mounted, and some are, but
sometimes after a couple of tries the disk will automount, other times
if I reboot with the dvd in the drive it's there, and other times it's
not.
I have no problems with CD's in the same drive. Reading and writing
works fine.
Any one else having dvd playback problems? And is there any way other
than buying a new drive to prove it is a hard ware problem?
Are the DVDs that you're trying good ones? I've seen a lot of discs
that are really poor, and only some that are good (this is with blank
discs for your own burning purposes).
There are some tools (lsdvd, if I recall correctly), which can give a
report on the disc that it reads. Might be worth trying it.