Busted DVD/CD-RW, what happened?

[fatalglitch]

Okay, so this is the SECOND laptop I have used with Linux that this has occurred with. After using Linux for about 2-3 months, the CDrom drive just goes bad, starts giving me I/O Errors and SeekComplete errors, and is no longer usable.

What is causing this? I have the correct kernel drivers installed, and I am using VERY safe, if any hdparm settings. Usually -c1d1m16 if i remember correctly.

It has come to the point where I am no longer willing to keep replacing drives if there is a hardware or driver error causing this. These drives are around 200 bucks a piece, and that's a lot to spend every 2 months.

I have searched google, as well as these forums, but to no avail. If anyone has ever had a similar problem, please let me know. Thanks.

-Tom

[refowe]

Getting the same errors here regardless what kind of CD/DVD(R,RW) i connect. Somehow it appears to be somekind of kernel stuff crz in my case kernel 2.6.7 works verry well , but as higher the minor number as more errors occur. e.g. i have to run mount twice to mount a CD and i'm unable to burn a CD/DVD most the time. Where "most the time" is actually the weird part about it , crz sometimes it works even if the system conditions didn't change... First thing i tried was to replace the "new" DMA/SCSI/BLOCK_DEVICE code using the "old" ( 2.6.7 ) but to many dependences and since i'm not a kernel developer i can't see the really important stuff changed within those subsystems. Therefore i decited to use kernel 2.6.7 for now and to checkout the latest kernel releases to see if it works again someday.

[fatalglitch]

bump...any help?

[kwisatz_haderais]

I seem to have the same problem.
Though some DVDs and CDs can still be read, other can't, even if they were being read fine at the beginning.
Now I'm getting I/O errors most of the time.
I'm using a: