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After I inserted a CDR in my drive, the drive continues trying to read it every few seconds, but it can't.
This worked a month or so ago! And it works perfectly with an old kubuntu on the same computer/drive.
This kind of problem has been reported multiple times the last month. Something broke....
Note that I am not talking about a burning program such as k3b, it is a problem at a lower level.
Up to date KDE 4 arch on my pentium IV system, no customisations, no 64 bits, just straight arch.
Thanks for any pointers...
[Update: after trying various other empty CDR media, I found that once in a while my drive does not recognize it, while other drives do.
So I guess the drive is aging after all]
Last edited by jwork123nl (2010-06-14 07:55:23)
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Hello! What is the brand of your burner?
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The burner is a Plextor PX-708-A.
Do you think this is significant? It always worked perfectly over the last 6 orso years I had this PC.
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Hmm I don't think so...
And how do you start KDE? with KDM or startx?
Does k3b or other burn programs recognize your burner?
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There is no problem with recognition of the burner. Playing and reading cd's, dvd's is no problem.
Standard setup -> kdm is used.
Again, I refuse to believe there is anything wrong with k3b, if plain kde4 does not even recognise the fact that an empty CDR is inserted. My laptop (kubuntu) pops up a notification that an empty medium is inserted. This is what I would expect KDE to do on my PC as well.
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Try a live Ubuntu for example, but it seems to me that you have a broken drive.
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And it works perfectly with an old kubuntu on the same computer/drive.
He said...
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