From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FAjKG-0007yY-Pa for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 07:49:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1J7mmvn030484; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 07:48:48 GMT Received: from mk-ironport-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com (mk-ironport-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com [212.74.114.23]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1J7ikKI024866 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 07:44:47 GMT Received: from 88-104-89-93.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com (HELO mk-smarthost-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com) ([88.104.89.93]) by mk-ironport-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com with ESMTP; 19 Feb 2006 07:44:45 +0000 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aa4HAHip90OICCw Received: from 88-104-89-93.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com ([88.104.89.93]:35570) by mk-smarthost-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1FAjFN-0003N6-Gi for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 07:44:45 +0000 Message-ID: <43F8220C.4070701@tiscali.co.uk> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 07:45:16 +0000 From: Rohit Sharma User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051207 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Unusual DVD-RW behavior? References: <43F8176B.6060101@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <43F8176B.6060101@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 66be6ce9-84d8-4e55-9c97-8f7fab1ed7de X-Archives-Hash: 7da6d3a672fb001c797eea2a9c044638 Jeff wrote: >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Feb 18 05:29 cdrom -> hdc >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Feb 18 05:29 cdrw -> hdc >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Feb 18 05:29 dvd -> hdc >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Feb 18 05:29 dvdrw -> hdc >brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 Feb 15 12:55 hdc > > It is probably fine as various programs look for different device names. Since you'd play music CDs as well as write DVDs in that one device only, links shall help those application find your current media. >end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 4 >cdrom: open failed. > > are you trying to eject here and that fails? Or a boot? What are you trying to do? If it was my drive, and I was sure it was not dying on me - I would probably not bother at all - unless it was unable to play music or write media. HTH, Rohit -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list