Gutsy will not recognize dvdr

[James Takac]

On Monday 19 November 2007 08:48:05 NoOp wrote:
> On 11/17/2007 06:46 PM, Ed Miller wrote:
> > NoOp wrote:
> >> On 11/17/2007 04:37 PM, Ed Miller wrote:
> >>>   *-cdrom
> >>>        description: DVD writer
> >>>        product: DVD Writer 740e
> >>>        vendor: HP
> >>>        physical id: 0.0.0
> >>>        bus info: scsi at 1:0.0.0
> >>>        logical name: /dev/cdrom1
> >>>        logical name: /dev/dvd1
> >>>        logical name: /dev/scd0
> >>>        logical name: /dev/sr0
> >>>        version: 42FF
> >>>        serial: [HP      DVD Writer 740e 42FF05/07/26CNMD3905
> >>>        capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
> >>>        configuration: status=ready
> >>>      *-disc
> >>>           physical id: 0
> >>>           logical name: /dev/cdrom1
> >>> I will wait until you reply, if someone else is having this problem
> >>> this could result in a fix. By the way, removing the quiet splash entry
> >>> from menu.lst made startup much faster.
> >>>
> >>> Ed
> >>
> >> It's a USB drive, it's available on /dev/cdrom1 & responding properly.
> >>
> >> You can create a mount point for it in fstab. Check to see if you have a
> >> /media/cdrom1 via Nautilus.
> >
> > This is the problem, that one is the usb drive which will not work
> > either. There is another cdrom in the list which is my internel dvd
> > which is /dev/hdc but it will not read the media no matter what i use. I
> > can reboot the lap-top and it will load the live ubuntu but when i
> > reboot without the live cd, ubuntu will not recognize the drive. For now
> > I am without cdrom support for either drive as ubuntu will not read
> > either one. I read somewhere that this is an issue with Gutsy because
> > the piix driver has been deprecated. It can be resolved if I can find
> > that driver and install it into the ide folder i would think.
> >
> > Ed
>
> Maybe it is time for a reinstall.
>
> Odd, I've reinstalled Ubuntu more in the past 18 months than in all the
> years that I used Windows (DOS to WinXPP). Then again I was/am
> sufficiently knowledgeable at troubleshooting just about anything on the
> older Win systems. I figure it will take me another few years before I
> get as proficient in doing the same on linux...


Hi NoOp

Know what you mean. Same boat myself. All part of the learning curve I guess 
which aint all that bad

James

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