help diagnose dvd/rw drive failure?

[anthony baldwin]

anthony baldwin wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Earlier today I loaded in two CDs, one after another (Chau Soda / Soda 
> Stereo)
> into my dvd drive and ripped them with Grip and everything was beautiful
> and groOvy.
>
> Then, just moments ago, I loaded in a dvd that I had written to back up 
> some materials
> for my business, and, the drive failed to read the disk.
> Then, it failed to eject the disk.
> It did not respond to pushing the eject button, nor to
> sudo eject.
>
> I ran sudo eject -v and got the following:
>
> tony at ool-45788232:~$ sudo eject -v
> eject: using default device `cdrom'
> eject: device name is `cdrom'
> eject: expanded name is `/dev/cdrom'
> eject: `/dev/cdrom' is a link to `/dev/hdc'
> eject: `/dev/hdc' is not mounted
> eject: `/dev/hdc' is not a mount point
> eject: `/dev/hdc' is a multipartition device
> eject: trying to eject `/dev/hdc' using CD-ROM eject command
> eject: CD-ROM eject command failed
> eject: trying to eject `/dev/hdc' using SCSI commands
> eject: SCSI eject succeeded
> tony at ool-45788232:~$
>
>
> I force ejected the disk with a paperclip, and inserted a cd to see if 
> the drive
> would then respond, and it failed to read the cd (Maná - Amar es Combatir).
> The device physically responded to neither the eject button or sudo 
> eject, and
> sudo eject -v gives me the above input.
>
> I tried all kinds of & sudo mount /mnt/cdrom and sudo mount /media/cdrom
> and sudo umount /media/cdrom and sudo umount /dev/hdc and whatever
> else to get the drive to read, mount, unmount or eject,
> etc., etc., all to no avail (no media found, regardless of what I shove 
> in there...
> not even the slice of bologna...okay, kidding about the bologna.)
>
> Any ideas regarding why my dvd drive was working beautifully this afternoon,
> and, now, is suddenly, for all appearances, dead,
> or how I may further diagnose and/or resolve said issue?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tony
>
>   
The drive is
ata-HL-DT-ST_DVD-RW_GWA-4165B_M0064HF1337
I don't know where to find further information on the device.

/tony

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