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Symptoms of dying CD drive?
I have one of the popular ASUS 24X RW CD drives that has probably
died. I'll replace it when I can afford to bring my machine down, but meanwhile I would appreciate knowing the typical symptoms of a CD drive mechanical failure and what troubleshooting procedures would detect a mechanically failing drive. In the case of my ASUS, when I first installed it, when playing an audio CD, there was about a one second pause in sound a second or two after the start. Annoying, but I lived with it for half a year. Now, however, the drive does not function at all. When I insert an audio CD, Audacious says "No audio capable CD drive found". This accompanied by noises that sound like the head moving back and forth and then a speedup of the drive motor that sounds like a hot-rodder taking off from a red light. I insert a DVD movie in and do $ mplayer dvd:://1 -dvd-device /dev/sr0 Warning unknown option include at line 177 ... mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory I tried: # dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/nev/null bs=1048 dd: opening `/dev/sr0': No medium found I could not mount a data cdrom: # mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0 Haines Brown |
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