lucid: DVDs no longer accessible

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday, July 21, 2010 08:44:42 pm Ric Moore did opine:

> 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

That is what my last burner did, Ric.  I fought with it for a week, gave up 
& saddled up my GMC and made a trip to dear old WallyWorld clear out to the 
other end of town, where a fresh LiteOn with a sata interface seemed to 
beckon to me.  It couldn't do lightscribe, but I found that was only very 
slightly better than worthless when it did work with the previous 3 drives.
No where near enough contrast to the image IMNSHO.  That was about 4 months 
back up the log.

Then I thought I had lost it a couple of weeks ago as it didn't recognize 
the cd of PClinuxOS-2010-7-x64 I had just burned in it.  But a full, 
powerdown reset for about 30 seconds brought it back to life.

I have not had a burner last me a full year yet, usually just long enough 
for the warranty to expire.  BBLB syndrome I guess.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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