Dell Poweredge 2950 Issues w/DVD

[GSmith]

Goodmorning,

I have a DELL Poweredge 2950
OS Red Hat Version 4.1.2-44
with a /dev/scd0 linked to /dev/cdrom: ata2.00: ATAPI: TSSTcorp DVD+/-RW TS-L633A, D200, Rev UDMA/100. The server is less than three months old. The DVD had been working fine until last week. Now it won't, I put a new disk in the drive, the LED blinks about 4 times and stops. I've tried multiple media and media that the drive was reading, but no luck. Can someone please give me some troubleshooting pointers? Thanks!!

[GSmith]

I did get a tip a minute ago off of Google. There is an issue with the GUI and the OS seeing the drives. Should only run in runlevel:3 I was in runlevel:5. I changed it to 3 and did a reboot. No good.

[GSmith]

Ok going to contact DELL to replace the drive. Will post back if that fixes it...

[GSmith]

I replaced the DVD drive and I'm back in business. Issue Resolved.......GS