unrecognized cdrom drive

[Charles philip Chan]

Brian Fahrlander <brian at fahrlander.net> writes:

>     But a bigger problem is how, despite hardware-revealing tools say 
> otherwise, most software tells me the my previously-working drives have 
> no kinds of media they can support. (The DVD supports dozens of media, 
> and until I loaded Feisty over the top of Dapper, I can't burn anything 
> any more.

Let us take it one step at a time. What is the output of:

,----
| wodim --scanbus
`----

?

> Is there any chance you have some details on this?  I don't need a
> question-n-answer, if you can point me to a web page...

No, I don't. I just noticed it after looking though the filesystem after
installation, but Google is your friend.

Charles

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