Lost my drivers for CRD 8482B ...Help please?!

You don't need drivers for it, its a bogstandard optical drive

Can you give the output of:

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

Thanks

Thank you for your quick reply. I have transposed the code line you supplied in Accessories>Terminal and after inserting my password, text/code came up. I figured it had taken so to make certain, I rebooted and tried to operate my cd rom with a music cd and nothing happened. Looking further in Places>Computer, there was no cd rom icon and the tree indicated empty space where it should have been listed.

I'm lost here. Can you help further?

Thank you.

Michel: actionparsnip was after the text that came up. This will help him to know what device you are using, and to guide you further

Yes I want you to give the output here. The command on its own does nothing so looking in places after running the command is futile.

Can you give the output of the command

Thanks

Thanks once more.....now this is embarassing...being a person for whom 'Dummy' books are written for.....some of the terminology used is very foreign to me but, here goes.......

this is the text that comes up when I paste the line code supplied......trust that's what you need. (Just to be complete, I'm using a Dell desk top, Pentium III 940Mh, ... the CD ROM is from LG Electronics.....)

Best regards.

michel@michel-desktop:~$ sudo lshw -C disk;sudo lshw -C drive; cat /etc/fstab
[sudo] password for michel:
  *-disk
       description: ATA Disk
       product: WDC WD800JB-00JJ
       vendor: Western Digital
       physical id: 0
       bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
       logical name: /dev/sda
       version: 05.0
       serial: WD-WMAM9AVX7194
       size: 74GiB (80GB)
       capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
       configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=000d3767
  *-cdrom
       description: SCSI CD-ROM
       physical id: 1
       bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
       logical name: /dev/cdrom
       logical name: /dev/scd0
       logical name: /dev/sr0
       capabilities: audio
       configuration: status=ready
# /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 defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=c15cfbcc-5c57-4ff2-8e4c-c942213b4ef9 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=f8b7203d-151c-4870-9c22-1143a3dea29a none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
michel@michel-desktop:~$

ok if you put the cd in does it automount? If not then run:

sudo mount /dev/scd0

uo can now access the CD contents from /media/cdrom0 in yuor file browser

I've tried to input actionparsnip's suggestion, but somehow it wouldn't take it......when I tried to input my password, it wouldn't take either....I thought perhaps that proprietary coding on those cd's I tried to get going was blocking me, so I tried a Ubuntu o/s disk and this is what I got ; DBus error org.gtk.Private.RemoteVolumeMonitor.Failed: An operation is already pending...So now I am completely baffled....

Could anyone help this 'Dummy' ...

Thanks.

The password won't give any feedback, just type the password and press ENTER as you would normally.

To Actionparsnip and Mycae:

I've given it another whirl, as you suggested, and tried to enter the line code and after asking my password repeatedly like yesterday, it finally took. I tried a CD full of photos and they came up.

I tried a disk downloaded off the Internet (Zeitgeist) and it didn't work, although it did previously.

I tried Ubuntu's disk for 9.10 O/S and it worked.

I tried a music CD (Mozart) and it didn't work, although it did previously, as background to work I did.

So, I've now got hits and misses and I'm still left wondering.

Any further suggestions?

Are media (video or sound) DVD failing and data ones working ?
In this case, have a look at Medibuntu.

Finally found Medibuntu but can't make either heads or tails of it.

sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update; sudo apt-get -y install libdvdread4; sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh; sudo apt-get -y upgrade

Should give you DVD playback

OK, thank you. I have input the codes as supplied ( including the URL, which on its own comes up 'not found: error 404' ) and still can't get video or sound.

In the matter of the Mozart CD, the D drive icon doesn't even come up......and as far as the Zietgeist CD, nothing happens when I try to open if ......Still no go...

If you can please let me know if there's anything further that can be done here .

Regards.

I checked the commands of actionparsnip and I got no error message
Could you try again. You can run in many steps:
sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list
sudo apt-get --quiet update
sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring
sudo apt-get --quiet update; sudo apt-get -y install libdvdread4
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh
sudo apt-get -y upgrade

I tried both by single line input and all six line of code and this is what I've gotten:

michel@michel-desktop:~$ Archive: /media/cdrom0/wubi.exe
Archive:: command not found
michel@michel-desktop:~$ [/media/cdrom0/wubi.exe]
bash: [/media/cdrom0/wubi.exe]: No such file or directory
michel@michel-desktop:~$ End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
End-of-central-directory: command not found
michel@michel-desktop:~$ a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
a: command not found
michel@michel-desktop:~$ latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
latter: command not found
michel@michel-desktop:~$ the last disk(s) of this archive.
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
michel@michel-desktop:~$ zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /media/cdrom0/wubi.exe or
No command 'zipinfo:' found, did you mean:
 Command 'zipinfo' from package 'unzip' (main)
zipinfo:: command not found
michel@michel-desktop:~$ /media/cdrom0/wubi.exe.zip, and cannot find /media/cdrom0/wubi.exe.ZIP, period.
bash: /media/cdrom0/wubi.exe.zip,: No such file or directory
michel@michel-desktop:~$

In view of the multiple negative messages above doesn't it seem that corruption of one or many files might be the culprit ?

The commands you run are not which provided!

Thank you for your reply. The problem has been solved at my end and I thank
all that have contributed solutions.

Best regards to all.

Michel Synnett

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Thank you for your keen assistance. With it I have resolved my issue.

Michel Synnett