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

[Juan Kawada]

ok I tried *sudo rm /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules, *and it's
still the same thing.

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Juan Kawada <juankawada at gmail.com> wrote:

> *"you could try sudo rm /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules"* i'll
> try that as soon as I can get back on kubuntu, in about 15 minutes, and post
> what happens. If i'm not mistaken that'll delete that file, and then when I
> reboot kubuntu it'll be rewritten so that the new drive is recognized?
>
> Yes I have three optical drives, two asus dvd burners, and one memorex
> external cd burner.
>
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Jonas Norlander <jonorland at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
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