From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 20 20:42:48 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 578BE1065672 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:42:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from mx0.gid.co.uk (mx0.gid.co.uk [194.32.164.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC0FC8FC1C for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:42:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gidgate.gid.co.uk (80-46-130-69.static.dsl.as9105.com [80.46.130.69]) by mx0.gid.co.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n8KKJwPL074519; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:19:58 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from rbPBP.gid.co.uk ([194.32.164.6]) by gidgate.gid.co.uk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8KKJr3n077654; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:19:53 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Message-Id: <16D3375E-4857-4068-868A-814C09478F3C@gid.co.uk> From: Bob Bishop To: Warren Block In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:19:53 +0100 References: <5f67a8c40909201103g2dba2d26m414b6bec4142b724@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What happened to DVD writing? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:42:48 -0000 Hi, On 20 Sep 2009, at 19:58, Warren Block wrote: > [...]This drive has probably written under 50 DVDs, all ISOs used > for backup. It's a Lite-On DH-20A4P bought in August 2008. It's > looking like the drive itself has failed. Which seems odd, since I > thought it could still burn CDs. Have you tried a cleaning disk on it? -- Bob Bishop rb@gid.co.uk