kirko birilli wrote <snip>: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> hi paul, hope that helps with your problem.found it while looking for a solution for my msi-laptop dvd writer.was messing around with udev as well and the discussion in the bug report... <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/udev/+bug/554433" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/udev/+bug/554433</a> </blockquote><div> Kirko (or Shen? help me figure out who I'm replying to), That was useful, if only to eliminate something. I tried opening Disk Utility, and the drive does not show up at all. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> From: Kenneth Koym wrote <snip></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 </blockquote><div> I don't want you spending time on this, take care of family matters and please don't neglect your own needs either...I will Google away. Installation kills...never heard of such a thing. The actual hardware is alive, it is detected by Bios and can boot live CDs. I apologize, I gave up on this list too soon and posted on ubuntu-studio-developers; somebody's helping there as well...maybe we can at least get my hardware working, but hopefully, get this patched so it doesn't happen to other users. I'm sure everyone wants a multimedia production distro to detect common optical drives. Thanks, PD </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Paul DeShaw <<a href="mailto:pauldeshaw@gmail.com">pauldeshaw@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > 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 </blockquote></div>