fresh install ---blooming DVD drive not recognized AGAIN

[Ric Moore]

On 01/13/2012 08:12 AM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Ric Moore<wayward4now at gmail.com>  wrote:

>> If anyone recalls, please clue me in.
>>
>> I am in the cdrom group and added myself to DVD as well. Still no go. It
>> just won't recognize a movie DVD and yes, I have libdvdcss installed.
>
> I suggest installing it from medibuntu repository, along with
> non-free-codecs metapackage.

Been there, done that, but thanks anyway. Here's what I ~think~ is the 
nitty-gritty. I had an older IDE cable hooked up during install. This 
machine is a second backup machine until my ASUS MB comes back from 
ASUS. But, I want it working an on my local net for devel purposes, as a 
client machine as a test platform. DVD not playing DVD movies at all. It 
will accept a data DVD like the install DVD and automount it no prob. 
But, I found this:
ric at ima:~$ sudo hdparm /dev/sr0
[sudo] password for ric:

/dev/sr0:
  multcount     =  0 (off)
  IO_support    =  0 (default)
  readonly      =  0 (off)
  readahead     = 256 (on)
  HDIO_GETGEO failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
ric at ima:~$

What the heck?? No DMA, no nuttin'. So, I replaced the IDE cable with a 
newer fat one. But, the system still thinks I'm running the older cable:
  3.544424] ata7.00: limited to UDMA/33 due to 40-wire cable
[    3.572419] ata6.00: n_sectors mismatch 40130390 != 40132503
[    3.572421] ata6.00: new n_sectors matches native, probably late HPA 
unlock, n_sectors updated
[    3.572426] ata6: nv_mode_filter: 0x739f&0x739f->0x739f, BIOS=0x7000 
(0xc000c500) ACPI=0x701f (60:900:0x11)
[    3.576354] ata7.00: configured for UDMA/33
[    3.588525] ata6.00: configured for UDMA/33
[    3.588528] ata6: EH complete

Before I go exploding stuff, if anyone has a clue how to get the system 
to auto-refresh itself, I'd appreciate the clue!! Thanks, Ric