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• New!sony r/w awa-g170a drive-dvd reading problem
Question by aniket.awati, Friday 27th of June 2008 20:08
After reading much on this problem from earlier posts i have updated the firmware, and now even the bios. My motherboard is Asus p4bgv-mx.
This drive doesn't read dvds on random basis. some dvds are read on it and some aren't.

Even dvds written by this drive aren't recognised on it after i updated the bios.
What more can I do?

One more thing, when i tried to install opensuse 10.3 from this dirve and it did start the boot manager and started installation fine, but suddenly it says it cant find software repository. and this is for all dvds of suse.
I even tried to connect a same drive of my friend to my pc, but that too has same problem.

WHAT SHOULD I DO? PLEASE HELP ME
Answer by eric93se, Friday 27th of June 2008 21:09
Either try re-downloading your copy of linux, or buy a new DVD drive. The Pioneer 115 or 215 /sata version/ are recomended.

Since you tried a second dvd drive already, I would have to assume that your drive is not at fault. But you could try cleaning the laser lens on the drive. Link
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