lost cd/dvd

[Dale]

Hi James,

Have you had a look to see if there is an entry in the /etc/fstab file
for the cd/dvd rom?

you should see something like this:
<quote>
/dev/hdb        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
</quote>

Regards
Dale

On 7/28/07, James Takac <p3nndrag0n at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> I seem to have a slight prob as of my last update on my other laptop. The
> specs for the laptop are at
> http://au.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1660&l1=5&l2=26&l3=316&l4=0
> I'm using Ubuntu 7.04 64 bit alternate version.
>
> what has happened is that after the online updates I've lost the ability to
> read dvd's and cd's. I can boot from cd's and dvd's (and win vista reads them
> as well) so the drive is working fine
>
> i did a dmesg | grep CD and got
>
> [   0.000000] ACPI: ECDT (v001 A_M_I_ OEMECDT 0x000717 MSFT 0x00000097) @
> 0x000000003ffa0620
>
> if I do a more /proc/partions i get 6 listed, i.e. sda, sda1 - 5
>
> this is getting annoying at the moment as when I try to dload anything via
> synaptic package manager it's asking for my install disk. And since it no
> longer is able to read it, it fails to dload anything from the repositories
> which means I can't even get libc6-dev in order to install the nvidia driver
>
> any ideas?
>
> James
>
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