Impossible to burn CD or DVD with LG GHSA H42N
 

Hi guyz,

I recently installed Debian Squeeze i386. I managed to install NVIDIA drivers for my 9800GT, ndiswrapper for my WG311v3 Wi-Fi card.

But I still have one big issue with my DVD player a LG GHSA H42N. It plays CDs and DVDs but can't burn 'em.

I tried with Brasero and Nero Linux, with different CD and DVD brands. Each time I get an "unknown error" message during the burning process and the CD tray comes out.

And there is much better ! If I put the CD back in the player, it switches off the computer ! Even in BIOS mode ....

I update the player firmware from RL00 to RL01 - which did nothing.

I googled everywhere to find a solution but there seems to be none. I don't expect much help, but this is just to say that linux still as a long way to go in terms of hardware support...


PS : this LG DVD player works and burns perfectly under Windows ...

Make sure you are part of the cdrom or what ever group that can write CD/DVD. Also make sure you have cdrecord and growisofs.

It is not that drive is not supported. Blaming Linux that is not supported is selfish and immature. A lot of companies are cutting corners by not including all commands in specifications. Sure your drive may work in Windows, but Windows tends to not comply to specifications. I bet you the drive sometimes work in Windows, but only times you use it is when it works.

LG is not a reliable and stable brand. I do not recommend them to anybody. Sure they are cheap, but it shows that they do not care about reliability and stability.

I have an LG drive that just does not recognizes discs. Also I placed the drive in different IDE channels and set it to either Master or Slave. Does this tell you that LG gives a crap about making quality devices. No they do not.

Get an optical drive from a better brand like ASUS or Plextor.

[QUOTE=Electro;3722595]Make sure you are part of the cdrom or what ever group that can write CD/DVD. Also make sure you have cdrecord and growisofs.
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I am new to this site but I use Debian at work for some time now and my problem really comes from hardware support as files are burnt on the discs but can't be read.

What is immature is pretending that Linux is the best system in the world, which it is not (neither is Windows). What is mature is adknowledging that Linux it still has some flaws and that they should be corrected.

As a user you just don't care that this brand doesn't comply to this or that standard. You see an item working under a given OS, you exepect it to work under Linux - that's all.

Despite those flaws, I'll stick with Linux. But what would the lambda user do ? Change his optical drive or go back to Window$ ? Think about it.

Problem solved by changing optical drive
 

I changed my optical drive for an ASUS DRW-22B2L. Now everything works fine.

So guys, Beware on LG drives with Linux !