DVD does not recognized disks anymore

Tue Jul 4 08:40:45 UTC 2006

This is probably a hardware error, but someone may have a solution.
Quite suddenly, my DVD drive (Plextor PX-716A) does not recognize
disks anymore, neither DVD nor CD-ROM. If I use 'mount' manually
I just get:
  mount: No medium found
Any idea what could have happened?
Probably I have to get a new drive, in any case no Plextor anymore...
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Gérard Milmeister
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