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Support for LG GSA-4040B DVD writer

Asked by jim_griffiths

When running Dapper Drake, my LG GSA-4040B DVD read/write drive does not seem to behave peoperly.
1.When a blank disk is inserted into the drive, the drive icon pops up temporarily on the desktop and then disappears.
2. When I try to mount it, the OS complains that it cannot mount it because it is either wrtite protected, has a bad block or is an incompatible system. Changing permissions under root seems to have zero effect.

Any help is appreciated.

Jim

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#1

Insert a disc, then type the following command to see what the system thinks is going on:-

$ dmesg

To view just the last few lines (rather than the whole log) you can do this:-

$ dmesg | tail

You might want to paste the output if it's relavent.

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jim_griffiths (james-gary-griffiths) said : 		#2

This is what the dmesg | tail command yields

Any thoughts

Jim

[4306710.137000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[4306710.137000] sda: sda1 sda2
[4306711.343000] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
[4306711.369000] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[4306712.194000] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
[4312249.685000] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 4
[4312249.807000] 0:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[4312249.807000] FAT: bread failed in fat_clusters_flush
[4312249.807000] 0:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[4393851.582000] cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!

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jim_griffiths (james-gary-griffiths) said : 		#3

Can anyone tell me what the above paste means?
Is my GSA-4040B DVDR/W drive being recognized.?
 Why is it not mounting with R/W permissions?

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Óscar Rodríguez Ríos (ingorr01) said : 		#4

cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! means that the medium is empty (dont have tracks).

All CD/DVD are ATAPI compliant, this means that all Linux compatible.
Is your drive recognized by BIOS?

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jim_griffiths (james-gary-griffiths) said : 		#5

how do tell if BIOS recognizes this device?

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jim_griffiths (james-gary-griffiths) said : 		#6

I also notice that even with a commercialy burned DVD, the icon that comes up on the desktop that shows the drive is mounted with something does not stay more than a few seconds.....
How can I fix this?

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