Mr. DeShaw: Solely reading what you say, leads me to believe a need exists to test, verify that the install did not kill the HP DVD Writer 840d. If I didn't two family members in separate hospitals, I review bugs related to installation kills. Appears very rare that 9.10 & 10.04 produce a dead HP DVD Writer 840d reading. Suggest google may supply you a work around. Thanks for letting Ubuntu Studio techs have a chance to solve the mystery. Ken <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Paul DeShaw <<a href="mailto:pauldeshaw@gmail.com">pauldeshaw@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Greetings, In a previous post I reported that Ubuntu Studio 9.10 could not find my HP DVD Writer 840d; this issue was never resolved. I have done a clean install of 10.04 and have the same problem--From the first boot, the very drive that read the install DVD, does not exist as far as Ubuntu Studio is concerned. Since the drive worked fine while running generic Ubuntu 9.10 from a flash drive, I could probably fix the problem simply by installing the generic 10.04 and adding the Studio packages. However, if there is any interest in finding and fixing this Ubuntu Studio-specific problem, I am willing to keep this install and work with the list to get it ironed out. I would really like to see Ubuntu Studio work for as many people as possible. I am concerned that the adoption of Ubuntu Studio could be seriously hindered if such common hardware is not usable. Does anyone want to work on this with me? --Paul in Seattle -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users</a> </blockquote></div>