fresh install ---blooming DVD drive not recognized AGAIN

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Q1: What are you system's specs?
Q2: What version of Ubuntu are you running?


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