[PLUG] What's gone wrong w/ my CD drives?

[Greg Lopp <lopp@earthlink.net>]

They say that the only stupid question is the one that isn't asked, so
in light of the fact that this has me completely stumped, here goes :
what the hell is wrong with my CD drives?

I have two machines, one dual-boots with Windows, the other is all
linux.  Sometime between now and my move a month or so back, I lost the
ability to read CDs from linux.  I can read them w/o any trouble from
Windows, I can write CDs - I just can't read/mount them.  There have
been no changes to the kernels.

The CDROM-HOWTO suggests trying "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/dev/null
bs=2048".  This results in 0 record in and out, and two I/O errors in
/var/log/messages.

I haven't the slightest idea where to begin.....its only a problem with
linux and only a problem reading/mounting.

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There are various reasons that software tends to be unwieldly, but a
primary one is what I like to call "brittleness". Software breaks before
it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers
statistics.
--Jaron Lanier



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