Re: dvd problem

2007-05-15 Thread Gadgeteer
Hi I am not sure what exactly is your problem but its seems like your are missing the correct driver. I looked for it but I had no luck, the only think I can recommend is a tech support site that I had some success with. They have free live chat support that could help you... Here is the page

Re: dvd problem

2007-04-27 Thread Greg Folkert
Neil, I hope you take this in the kindest way possible. FOFF. I already told you to go back to your Windows and Pay for support elsewhere. Go ahead and pay to have forced anal sex. Gwon, all you care to do is nastily complain and presuppose we actually care about you driveling snot nosed asinin

Re: dvd problem

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 09:45:14PM +0100, Neil Sumner wrote: > I cant boot your dvd's the installation gets to mounting the dvd and > fails > > it says there is no module for the dvd and suggests that it must be an > old > dvd drive > > it isnt it is new, it is a SONY DVD RW AW G170A > > All *

Re: dvd problem

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 21:45 +0100, Neil Sumner wrote: [snip a lot of aggressive accusations and ranting about UBUNTU] > It looks to me that if I do not ask you directly, I may be waiting > forever :) Nothing like being confrontational right from the get go. It is the single most asinine thing new

Re: dvd problem

2007-04-25 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Neil Sumner wrote: I cant boot your dvd's the installation gets to mounting the dvd and fails it says there is no module for the dvd and suggests that it must be an old dvd drive it isnt it is new, it is a SONY DVD RW AW G170A All *nix do this with my system which is an i

Re: DVD Problem

2004-07-15 Thread John Summerfield
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.07.15.0009 +0200]: apt-get install smartmontools smartctl -a /dev/hdc You will want to set it up to monitor /dev/hda too. Uh, your CD-ROM drives are SMART-capable? None of mine are... SMART support is: Unavailable

Re: DVD Problem

2004-07-15 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.07.15.0009 +0200]: > apt-get install smartmontools > smartctl -a /dev/hdc > You will want to set it up to monitor /dev/hda too. Uh, your CD-ROM drives are SMART-capable? None of mine are... SMART support is: Unavailable - Packet Interface Dev

Re: DVD Problem

2004-07-14 Thread John Summerfield
Curt Howland wrote: Oh well, it was a good try. I will confess it suggested it more in hope than expectation, but it's an easy thing to try and, at worst, would provide no useful info. OTOH IMV everyone should be using it for all their ATA drives. If you want to know your drive needs to be re

Re: DVD Problem

2004-07-14 Thread Curt Howland
Oh well, it was a good try. --- # smartctl -a /dev/hdc smartctl version 5.30 Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: SONYDVD RW DW-U50A Serial Number:EA21DF5E Fir

Re: DVD Problem

2004-07-14 Thread John Summerfield
Curt Howland wrote: Martin, I'm getting exactly the same kind of errors, and the Sony drive I have is not a cheap one. Unfortunately, the warrentee is voided if I return it to Office Depot with Linux installed instead of XP, so I've been putting off letting them have it for fixing. Check with

Re: DVD Problem

2004-07-14 Thread John Summerfield
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.07.14.1710 +0200]: hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: packet command error: error=0x50 hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: packet

Re: DVD Problem

2004-07-14 Thread Curt Howland
Martin, I'm getting exactly the same kind of errors, and the Sony drive I have is not a cheap one. Unfortunately, the warrentee is voided if I return it to Office Depot with Linux installed instead of XP, so I've been putting off letting them have it for fixing. However, it's good to know that

Re: DVD Problem

2004-07-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.07.14.1710 +0200]: >hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } >hdc: packet command error: error=0x50 >hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } >hdc: packet command error