Mandriva forgetting my dvd drives

[bower]

I have Mandriva 2010 and it keeps not seeing my dvd drives. i will go to konsole and type in

service haldaemon restart

and then reboot and my drives work but after awhile it forgets they are there and i can't access them again. when I go into KB3 it tells me there are no drives when it forgets them. any idea on what i can do? thanks for all your help?

Bower

[nmset]

You need not reboot after restarting HAL, it's as if you have not restarted the service at all. Does it see the drive after restarting HAL ?

[bower]

i have to restart Hal then reboot maybe if i just reboot it will see it and i need not restart Hal never the less i have to reboot. then it works for awhile then stops again.

Bower

[ongte]

Could it be something to do with speedboot?

I got many weird little anomalies until I turned off speedboot.

[bower]

someone else told me about speed boot but i forget how they told me to do it. i do remember that it said it may corrupt the file if i saved the file after changing it so i didnt do that. could you tell me how to do that? thank you

Bower

[bower]

I tried again to change speedboot but when i put this command in as root it says command not found

Edit /etc/sysconfig/speedboot

when i open it in kwrite it won't save it as i dont have permission.

[nmset]

You have to edit the file as root (su command)

[bower]

You have to edit the file as root (su command)

I do log in as root in Konsole and type this command

Edit /etc/sysconfig/speedboot


I get an errot message command not found

I also am logged in and go to the file in dolphin and it denies me access as well

Any idea what to do now?

Bower

[nmset]

Edit is not a valid command. You must use a text editor in console. You may use Midnight Commander. If it's not installed, as root :

urpmi mc
mcedit /etc/sysconfig/speedboot

[bower]

I changed speedboot to no


well that worked for a little while but then it stopped again. I replaced the dvd drive so maybe it is just the computer. it workes when i reboot for a time them stops reading it again.

Anyone have any other ideas.

Bower