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DVD drive not working in 10.10

Asked by cpysang on 2010-11-22

After I upgraded to 10.10 my DVD drive stopped working. The DVD drive has additional internal files loaded supposed to be used on Win OS. On 9.10 and 10.4 it was not a problem, data, movie & music dvds and cds played without a hitch but after my upgrade it doesn't read any cds or dvds. Its definitely not a problem with the drive itself; I used it to install 10.10 again tonight. Any help will be appreciated.

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Status:: Solved

For:: Ubuntu util-linux Edit question

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Solved by:: actionparsnip

Solved:: 2011-03-23

Last query:: 2011-03-23

Last reply:: 2011-01-31

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said on 2010-11-22:

Can you give the output of:

cat /etc/fstab; sudo lshw -C drive; sudo lshw -C disk

Thanks

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cpysang (cpysang) said on 2010-11-25:

strydoms@strydoms:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=99f980b6-5cd1-44a8-9154-f2017411e331 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=6e7876be-8623-4ceb-952d-8ee8107e80eb none swap sw 0 0
strydoms@strydoms:~$ sudo lshw -C drive
[sudo] password for strydoms:
strydoms@strydoms:~$ sudo lshw -C disk
  *-disk
       description: ATA Disk
       product: Hitachi HDP72505
       vendor: Hitachi
       physical id: 0
       bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0
       logical name: /dev/sda
       version: GM4O
       serial: GEC564RJ2SE67J
       size: 465GiB (500GB)
       capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
       configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=0001ab22
  *-cdrom
       description: DVD-RAM writer
       product: DVDRAM GH22NS50
       vendor: HL-DT-ST
       physical id: 1
       bus info: scsi@3:0.0.0
       logical name: /dev/cdrom
       logical name: /dev/cdrw
       logical name: /dev/dvd
       logical name: /dev/dvdrw
       logical name: /dev/scd0
       logical name: /dev/sr0
       logical name: /media/Bluebirds
       version: TN00
       capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
       configuration: ansiversion=5 mount.fstype=iso9660 mount.options=ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8,mode=0400,dmode=0500 state=mounted status=ready
     *-medium
          physical id: 0
          logical name: /dev/cdrom
          logical name: /media/Bluebirds
          configuration: mount.fstype=iso9660 mount.options=ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8,mode=0400,dmode=0500 state=mounted

strydoms@strydoms:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=99f980b6-5cd1-44a8-9154-f2017411e331 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=6e7876be-8623-4ceb-952d-8ee8107e80eb none            swap    sw              0       0
strydoms@strydoms:~$ sudo lshw -C drive
[sudo] password for strydoms: 
strydoms@strydoms:~$ sudo lshw -C disk
  *-disk                  
       description: ATA Disk
       product: Hitachi HDP72505
       vendor: Hitachi
       physical id: 0
       bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0
       logical name: /dev/sda
       version: GM4O
       serial: GEC564RJ2SE67J
       size: 465GiB (500GB)
       capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
       configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=0001ab22
  *-cdrom
       description: DVD-RAM writer
       product: DVDRAM GH22NS50
       vendor: HL-DT-ST
       physical id: 1
       bus info: scsi@3:0.0.0
       logical name: /dev/cdrom
       logical name: /dev/cdrw
       logical name: /dev/dvd
       logical name: /dev/dvdrw
       logical name: /dev/scd0
       logical name: /dev/sr0
       logical name: /media/Bluebirds
       version: TN00
       capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
       configuration: ansiversion=5 mount.fstype=iso9660 mount.options=ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8,mode=0400,dmode=0500 state=mounted status=ready
     *-medium
          physical id: 0
          logical name: /dev/cdrom
          logical name: /media/Bluebirds
          configuration: mount.fstype=iso9660 mount.options=ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8,mode=0400,dmode=0500 state=mounted

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said on 2010-11-25:

if you run:

sudo mkdir /media/cdrom0; gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

add this line:

/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

Save the file and reboot, should help

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cpysang (cpysang) said on 2011-01-31:

Thanks, done that. It helped partly, as I can at least read data CDs, however I still cant play DVDs. The drive doesn't even see the files. It is as if the DVD is blank. This is not correct as the DVD plays on my normal DVD player.

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