help reading cd

[Ric Moore]

On 05/22/2012 02:25 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 22/05/12 05:28, Richard Fell wrote:
>> With ubuntu 12.04, after placing a cd on which I have burned an iso
>> image, I get a pop up windoww with the following message:"This link
>> cannot be used, because its target "cdrom0" doesn't exist".
>> Perhaps not since I get:
>>
>> rfell at rosewall:/dev$ ls -l | grep cdrom*
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2012-05-21 15:25 cdrom -> sr0
>> crw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 21, 2 2012-05-20 14:25 sg2
>> brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 2012-05-21 15:25 sr0
>>
>>
>> Should not this sort of thing be taken care of automatically so inept
>> users such as I will be spared such penances as this?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Dick Fell
>
> Interesting.... There is a person on the Kubuntu list who cannot get
> k9copy to open a DVD even though he can actually open it using other
> apps including playing the DVD using kaffeine. He is also now using
> 12.04, BTW. Oh, he gets a different error message which just says,
> "Cannot open /dev/sr0".

When I just replaced the damned DVD player, that fixed it. I 
re-installed that player to another machine and the same problem crops 
up. Ergo, it is busted. Cheap enough to replace to test. :) Ric



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