new dvd drive won't play dvds, but old one can

[Jonas Norlander]

2008/8/17 Mark Fraser <kubuntu at mfraz.orangehome.co.uk>:
> On Saturday 16 August 2008 19:45:16 Juan Kawada wrote:
>>
>> Also I forgot to mention that It mounts fine. and my old dvd player that
>> does work is a asus drive too, although I can't remember the model number
>> right now.  (i'm pretty sure my new drive is just a newer version of the
>> old one).
>>
>> I'm sad to say that it works fine in windows, and I didn't even use the
>> driver install disc that came with it, so this looks like a linux error.
>>
>> "ls -l /dev | grep dvd" outputs this
>> *lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   root           4 2008-08-16 09:58 dvd -> scd1
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   root           4 2008-08-16 09:58 dvd3 -> scd0
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   root           4 2008-08-16 09:58 dvdrw -> scd1
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   root           4 2008-08-16 09:58 dvdrw3 -> scd0*
>>
>> ls -l /dev | grep cdr outputs this
>> *lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   root           4 2008-08-16 09:58 cdrom -> scd1
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   root           4 2008-08-16 09:58 cdrom1 -> scd2
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   root           4 2008-08-16 09:58 cdrom3 -> scd0
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   root           4 2008-08-16 09:58 cdrw -> scd1
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   root           4 2008-08-16 09:58 cdrw1 -> scd2
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   root           4 2008-08-16 09:58 cdrw3 -> scd0
>> brw-rw----+ 1 root   cdrom    11,   0 2008-08-16 02:58 scd0
>> brw-rw----+ 1 root   cdrom    11,   1 2008-08-16 02:58 scd1
>> brw-rw----+ 1 root   cdrom    11,   2 2008-08-16 02:58 scd2
>> crw-rw----  1 root   cdrom    21,   0 2008-08-16 02:58 sg0
>> crw-rw----  1 root   cdrom    21,   1 2008-08-16 02:58 sg1
>> crw-rw----  1 root   cdrom    21,   3 2008-08-16 02:58 sg3*
>
> You could try:
>
> sudo rm /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules
>
> and then rebooting the machine.
>

I would try that to. From the output above you have three CD/DVD
drives is that true?