erm well i went to copy a cd earlier and i put the cd in the burner and the reading light flashes quickly and then goes out, thus indicating that it can't read the cd, thinking this is a little weird, i put the cd in old reliable and that wont even read the cd, so i try to reboot the machine to see if that makes a difference, but no, so i have had the machine off for a few hours and they still both refuse to read any cds

i have no idea why this is happening, all i know is that it was working the other day, and the cds work in my laptop

both the CD-ROM and the burner are on the same channel, but this shouldn't make a difference for the hardware to read the cd surely ??

and i am running Linux, but they should have no bearing on it either

so anyone got any ideas why this might be happening ??