Plextor DVD problems

[Gérard Milmeister]

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 23:27 +0100, Angelo Machils wrote:
> Hello there!
> 
> I have exchanged my Sony DVD reader with a Plextor PX-116A and also 
> installed a Plextor PX-716A DVD writer. When I put a burned DVD into 
> either one of these drives they show up on the desktop, but when I open 
> them, they are seen as empty (blank) disks. I can however mount them 
> manually as my normal user and go to the mountpoint in a terminal. Only 
> there I can see the contents of the disk.
I have had this problem with FC-3 with a Plextor PX-320A and a Plextor
PX-716A. It does however not occur with all DVDs, but when it happens,
then independently of self-burned or factory-produced.
I have opened a bug report some time ago.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=143421
> Other times I can't even mount the disk at all. All this only happens 
> with DVD's, not CD's.
I have however always been able to mount.
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Gérard Milmeister
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