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

[Nigel Henry]

On Thursday 21 August 2008 18:01, Juan Kawada wrote:
> Ok so now dvds play in the new drive but not the old.
> when I have a dvd in my new drive, and I insert one into the old, It'll pop
> up with the dialog asking me what to do. I can select play with kaffeine,
> but it'll play the dvd in the new drive instead of the one it just asked me
> to play.

It's good that your now able to play DVD's on the new drive.

The thing is with apps that can play DVD's, is that they are set up to use one 
drive. Of course you can normally change this in the settings for the app, 
and point the app to use a specific drive.

For example. On my new machine, I only have a DVD drive, and this shows up 
in /dev as "dvd", and "dvdrw", as the drive will also write to dvd's. So in 
this case, an app that you want to play DVD's on, only needs to be pointing, 
in it's settings to /dev/dvd.

On another machine I have 3 optical drives, a cdrom drive, a cd writer, and a 
dvd drive, and these show up in /dev as cdrom. cdrom1, and cdrom2. All 3 are 
block device links. cdrom points to /dev/hdc, cdrom1 points to /dev/hdd, and 
cdrom2 points to /dev/hdg, which is the dvd drive.

It's worth having a look in /dev, as you will no doubt see 2 dvd devices, dvd, 
and dvd1.

I've just had a look in kaffeine on my new machine that only has one optical 
drive (the dvd one). Go to Settings/xine Engine Parameters/media. If I go 
down the list I see under "dvd. device", that it's pointing to /dev/dvd 
(which in my case as I only have 1 dvd drive is correct).

You will have to look in kaffeines settings, and see what it shows. If the dvd 
device is shown as /dev/dvd, and with a dvd in each drive, kaffeine plays the 
one in the new drive, then /dev/dvd is the new drive. Change the line so that 
it shows as /dev/dvd1, click apply, and ok. You may have to close kaffeine, 
and restart it (not sure). That aside try playing a dvd from your old drive 
again. Now kaffeine should be pointing to the old dvd drive, and the dvd 
should play.

Obviously if the new drive is /dev/dvd1, change it to /dev/dvd in kaffeines 
settings.

2¢ worth of hopefully usefull info.

Nigel.







>
> Well both drives are sata, I would switch the sata cables just to check,
> but I can't log into kubuntu right now (check the message "windows
> overwrote boot record").  Seems I've been having alot of problems lately.
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Sylviane et Perry White
>
> <spwhite at freesurf.ch> wrote:
> > On Sunday 17 August 2008 22:00, Juan Kawada wrote:
> > > ok sorry for the triple post here but I just learned something new. I
> >
> > just
> >
> > > put in a dvd in both drives, new and old. When I tried to play the dvd
> > > in the new drive, it played the dvd in the old one instead.
> >
> > and later (the 19th)
> >
> > > Ok. I changed thee setting in kaffeine to point to the new dvd drive
> >
> > instead
> >
> > > of the old. now dvds play in the new one, but not the old.
> >
> > I've followed this thread for more than a week and no configuration
> > (software)
> > solution turned up.
> > Perhaps you should (double?)check the cabling and hardwired settings.
> > What happens when you swap cables to those drives, could it be that the
> > computer gets mixed up because of a misplaced master/slave jumper ?
> >
> > Perry
> >
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