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From: Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Plextor SATA DVD RW not working
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:35:15
Message-Id: 20070604053133.GA6237@princeton.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Plextor SATA DVD RW not working by James
1 On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 03:06:34AM +0000, Penguin Lover James squawked:
2 > Kaffeine gives this error message
3 >
4 >
5 > The source can't be read.
6 > Maybe you don't have enough rights for this, or source doesn't contain data
7 > (e.g: no disc in drive). (/dev/dvd)
8
9 Some simple questions:
10
11 what does 'ls -l /dev/dvd' show?
12 can your user read /dev/dvd?
13 -- permissions?
14 -- is the device really /dev/dvd?
15
16 W
17 --
18 BOOK ...Man had always assumed that he was more
19 intelligent than
20 dolphins because he had achieved so much... the
21 wheel, New York,
22 wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever
23 done was muck
24 about in the water having a good time. But
25 conversely the
26 dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent
27 than man for
28 precisely the same reasons.
29 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 178 days, 3:51
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[gentoo-user] Re: Plextor SATA DVD RW not working James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>