Mike McCarty wrote:
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
I didn't run FC2, so I am not sure about this. Could it be that the DVD-ROM drive is reporting that there is a disk in the drive, but taking too long to report the rest of the information, so that the system is assuming that it is a blank disk? (Or reporting error like it is trying to read a blank disk...)
That's a good supposition.
I suppose that's possible. What I really need is to be able to know that others use DVD-ROM drives and don't have this problem. I want to narrow it down to either the DVD-ROM drive itself, settings in FC2, or what. Until I know what the incompatibility is, I can't go about fixing it. I don't want to return the drive, only to have the replacement behave the same way. Perhaps I can put a CD-ROM in there as well, and boot CentOS or similar LiveCD and see what it thinks. If the drive works as expected with CentOS, then perhaps that's the way to go. I really should be using a supported OS anyway.
If it does not work with a LiveCD, then perhaps there actually is a problem with the drive itself.
Thanks for the reply!
Mike
Well, I am running 2 DVD-RW - I forget the brands, but they show up in dmesg as: TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S202G DVDRW DRW-5S163
They will both auto-mount CDs and DVDs. But this is with F8, so I do not know if that helps with FC2.
One other thing to keep in mind when testing - some systems will not boot from CD if there are 2 CD/DVD drives in the system at the same time. I think it is getting kind of rare now, but I do run into it once in a while.
I hope this helps...
Mikkel