DVD - DriveReady SeekComplete Error

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 01:11:45PM -0500, Sean Hammond wrote:

> I installed Ubuntu on my Dell Latitude Cpx laptop which has a
> DVD-rom,
> the DVD drive doesn't work (in Ubuntu, but the drive itself is not
> broken because I used it to install Ubuntu in the first place) and I
> don't really know what to do about it.

Try disabling DMA on the CD-ROM drive and see if that helps:

echo 'using_dma:0' | sudo tee /proc/ide/hdc/settings

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 - mdz