why is my cdrom drive tray closing so fast?
I thought I'd be smart and backup my Ubuntu setup CD. Taught me how NOT smart I am.
I have a single CDROM drive. When the CD copy is done, the tray automatically comes out, and immediately closes again. There's no time to change to the blank CD. I have tried using both gnomebaker and brassero...same results. Is there a setting I can change somewhere in Linux to change the speed of tray timing? How do I make it pause 10 seconds before the tray closing? Thanks in advance |
So can you not just open the CD tray again to put the blank in?
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arizonagroovejet, thanks for your reply. If I open the drive and replace the cd it interrupts the copy program and it stops. So, no, I can't just reopen the drive.
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it could be a bad contact where the drawer opens. or just a bad tempered cd dvd/drive
Boot the system & go in to the bios & see if it still does it. |
nigelc, thank you for your ideas
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As a work around, you may want to first make an image of the CD. Something like this:
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dd if=/dev/scd0 of=filename.iso And then burn the ISO using whatever application you normally use. This does not address the open/close issue, but you may at least get your backup copy. |
What does the command
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eject If a bug, file a report and script a solution using dd, perhaps something like: Code:
#!/usr/bin/env bash If not a bug, don't file a report, theres a problem on your system which is going to be a ballache to fix. In which case, use the above code, without the 'eject' and manually eject. |
jamescondron, thank you for you informative reply:
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dd if=/dev/scd0 of=filename.iso |
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