lucid: DVDs no longer accessible

[Steve Morris]

On 22/07/10 05:16, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 21:51 +0300, William Hamra wrote:
>   
>> On 07/21/2010 09:43 PM, Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wednesday 21 July 2010, William Hamra wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> try :
>>>>
>>>> sudo mount /dev/sr0 /cdrom
>>>>
>>>> this works fine on my system.... if it's DVD as you mention, you
>>>> *might* need to add the -t option, it can be iso9660 or ufs, so
>>>> the command becomes:
>>>>         
>>> You mean udf?
>>>
>>>       
>>>> sudo mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /cdrom
>>>> OR
>>>> sudo mount -t udf /dev/sr0 /cdrom
>>>>         
>>> Corrected that command...
>>>
>>>   --Reinhold
>>>
>>>       
>> snap.. yeah, it's udf... thanks for the correction :)
>>     
>
> Still doesn't address why the DVD isn't fired up automagically, when
> it's inserted. It just doesn't seem to work no mo'. Ric
>
>   
I haven't been following following this thread so excuse me if my
suggestions have already been made.
As a starting point have you checked whether or not the bios still sees
the second dvd drive? If the bios sees it, are there any messages in
syslog or boot.log around the boot time device initialisation failing on
the 2nd device?

regards,
Steve

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