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dvd drive disappears

Asked by DG MCLaren

Ubuntu 10.10 Dell 470 NEC +/-RW ND-3530 present in disk utility and Places on startup, disappears from Places when recorded DVD inserted and Gnomebaker or VLC cannot see it to play it. VLC works from Terminal with vlc dvd:// I trolled through various support posts without luck.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

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

Thanks

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Best Andre Mangan (kyphi) said : 		#2

I assume that the DVD in question was one that you recorded.

The reason why it cannot be seen is most likely that the lead-in section was corrupted or else you have chosen the wrong format such as "Data" instead of "Audio". If you have been using Audacity to record, do not totally remove the section without sound at the start.

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DG MCLaren (dgmclaren) said : 		#3

Andre Mangan - made progress
 I had been testing with a video DVD burned from a home harddrive recorder
 I switched to a commercial DVD (Boston Legal) and it recognized and played, exited, restarted with VLC player
 Returned to 'homemade' DVD and it played.

Not sure whats happening but it seems your comments about disc type or lead in are right
 Also not sure where I chose the format ?

Many Thanks!

actionparsnip
Output request
lshw drive and disk commands - PCI (sysfs) then returns to prompt

cat command result
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --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=4d390d4f-3d94-486d-b55b-655661b49664 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=9fdcc61a-00ad-40e6-921d-e0d7a9a2875e 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

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DG MCLaren (dgmclaren) said : 		#4

Thanks Andre Mangan, that solved my question.