Re: dvd burner can't read cds

2010-02-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:01:08 -0500 (EST), Leonardo Canducci wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> Leonardo Canducci wrote: >>> It's more complex than that: I tested the unit on a different win xp >>> pc this morning and everything worked fine (analog included). >> >> Uhh ... OK, now I'm confused.  You

Re: dvd burner can't read cds

2010-02-11 Thread Leonardo Canducci
2010/2/11 Stephen Powell : > On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:04:30 -0500 (EST), Leonardo Canducci wrote: >> The SATA dvd burner in my desktop doesn't have any analog output so >> cdplay (or cdcd) does not work (disk is spinning and led is blinking >> but no audio). > > How sad.  Apparently, the drive *does*

Re: dvd burner can't read cds

2010-02-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:04:30 -0500 (EST), Leonardo Canducci wrote: > The SATA dvd burner in my desktop doesn't have any analog output so > cdplay (or cdcd) does not work (disk is spinning and led is blinking > but no audio). How sad. Apparently, the drive *does* support the play command, but if t

Re: dvd burner can't read cds

2010-02-11 Thread Leonardo Canducci
2010/2/11 Stephen Powell : > On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:13:11 -0500 (EST), Leonardo Canducci wrote: >> Stephen Powell wrote: >>> First thing to check: Is the activity light on the drive flashing on >>> and off at regular intervals?  On my system, it's on for about 0.5 >>> seconds, then off for about 0.

Re: dvd burner can't read cds

2010-02-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:13:11 -0500 (EST), Leonardo Canducci wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> First thing to check: Is the activity light on the drive flashing on >> and off at regular intervals?  On my system, it's on for about 0.5 >> seconds, then off for about 0.5 seconds, just like clockwork. >

Re: dvd burner can't read cds

2010-02-11 Thread Leonardo Canducci
2010/2/11 Stephen Powell : > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:03:25 -0500 (EST), Leonardo Canducci wrote: >> >> Maybe a little off-topic: hardware issue with lenny. >> >> I've just replaced a broken LG dvd burner on my parents pc with an >> ASUS drw-22b2s (IDE interface) and it works fine except it cannot re

Re: dvd burner can't read cds

2010-02-11 Thread Leonardo Canducci
2010/2/11 : > The new drive has an audio cable to connect it to the audio card? It has the usual thin analog audio cable connected to the motherboard as all IDE drives. AFAIK SATA drives don't have this cable anymore but they work anyway... I guess digital audio goes through data cable. -- Leona

Re: dvd burner can't read cds

2010-02-10 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:03:25 -0500 (EST), Leonardo Canducci wrote: > > Maybe a little off-topic: hardware issue with lenny. > > I've just replaced a broken LG dvd burner on my parents pc with an > ASUS drw-22b2s (IDE interface) and it works fine except it cannot read > audio cds. This didn't happ

Re: dvd burner can't read cds

2010-02-10 Thread olafrv
Veracierta (BB) http://olafrv.googlepages.com -Original Message- From: Leonardo Canducci Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:03:25 To: Subject: dvd burner can't read cds Maybe a little off-topic: hardware issue wi

dvd burner can't read cds

2010-02-10 Thread Leonardo Canducci
Maybe a little off-topic: hardware issue with lenny. I've just replaced a broken LG dvd burner on my parents pc with an ASUS drw-22b2s (IDE interface) and it works fine except it cannot read audio cds. This didn't happen with the old one. Anyway serpentine or cdcd or else fail or return errors on