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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. ____________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug