fresh install ---blooming DVD drive not recognized AGAIN

[Ric Moore]

On 01/15/2012 08:17 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:

> Yesterday, after several frustrating hours where I could not get my
> wife's computer to work properly (I had to move the system into a new
> box - don't ask :-) ), I realised that one should prepare a check list
> of what to do when tackling a damn computer's innards and tick them off
> as the work progresses :-( .

I always mean to do that, but I get into "Master of the Universe" mode, 
with the skin of my scalp pulsing and bulging from all the brains packed 
under there, and think I'll remember it all. <sighs> I know, someone 
just shoot me.

> I couldn't get the darn thing to work properly because......I had
> forgotten to check that the jumpers on the HDs and the CDROM and DVD
> burner were correctly set :-( .
>
> So, are your jumpers all set correctly?

But of course. <smirks> I have one harddrive and one CD/DVD r/w. Both 
are set to "master", as each is on it's own cable and both are IDE.

> Secondly, you state above that you use a "newer fat one" IDE cable. This
> means that rather than use the 80-wire cable you regressed to the old
> 40-wire cable - which is why you are getting the message that your UDMA
> is now only 33 "due to 40-wire cable". S

Nah, I should have been clearer... I used a NEWER "fatter" IDE ribbon 
cable to the DVD drive. It's still the old IDE flat ribbon style though. 
It LOOKS nicer, and a little more heavy duty, so it ought to work 
better? Heh, the optimistic side of me shows. But, there are a TON of 
people with the very same problem, and each gets the answer to install 
libdvdcss2. That's a good first step, but I think I'm way beyond that one.

I just pushed "Real Lies" in the drive. From a command line I launched 
VLC. I tried to open the disc using /dev/sr0 and got this in the error 
window:

> Playback failure:
> DVDRead could not open the disc "/dev/sr0".
> Your input can't be opened:
> VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvdsimple:///dev/sr0'. Check the log for details.

...and in the terminal window I see this:

> libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.11 for DVD access
> libdvdread: Could not open /dev/sr0 with libdvdcss.
> libdvdread: Can't open /dev/sr0 for reading
> [0x8c914b4] dvdread demux error: DVDRead cannot open source: /dev/sr0
> [0xb7400784] main input error: open of `dvdsimple:///dev/sr0' failed: (null)
> libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.11 for DVD access
> libdvdread: Could not open /dev/sr0 with libdvdcss.
> libdvdread: Can't open /dev/sr0 for reading
> [0xb7409bf4] dvdread demux error: DVDRead cannot open source: /dev/sr0
> [0x8c405cc] main input error: open of `dvdsimple:///dev/sr0' failed: (null)

This drive worked just peachy in my main AMD 6-core cpu'd server. This 
MSI Intel Dual Core board has been giving me fits in various places, 
including this. At least I got it cheap. Methinks there was some file up 
in /etc that I had to hand edit before. I'm pretty sure I previously got 
DMA switched on. Ric