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Old 10-20-2014, 08:24 PM   #1
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Help setting up new DVDRW required please


Hi, I'm quite new to Ubuntu & have searched for similar threads, even tried adding some commands in the terminal to solve this problem. My original optical drive was not responding so I switched it out with a pioneer DVDRW from a spare system I had sitting here.
The DVDRW shows up in the disk utility as "CD/DVD DRIVE /dev/sr0 (Read-Only)" but I am unable to get it to open or play any kind of media.
I've tried data discs, commercially recorded music (CDDA) & DVD as well as a blank DVD+R.
When I insert the audio disc, it shows in the navbar as an audio disc & even goes as far as showing the title of the album, track names & durations, however, none of them can be opened using VLC or rhythmbox. I've tried ripping the audio disc using Audex.

I get some error pop ups as follows:

Unable to mount audio disc
/dev/sr0 does not contain audio files

The drive itself seems to spool up for a brief period, then comes to a standstill, with the status led on the front flashing green about once every 3-4 seconds very briefly.

If I type "eject" into the terminal, the drive opens normally.

BTW, I'm running 64 bit of 14.04LTS

I'm comfortable with entering the terminal commands, but being new, haven't yet mastered the command lines myself.

Any help will be greatly appreciated

Last edited by subieroobie; 10-20-2014 at 08:38 PM. Reason: Added OS version info
 
Old 10-25-2014, 02:01 PM   #2
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What type of drive i.e PATA or SATA? If it is a PATA drive make sure the cable is plugged in correctly.

Check the output of the dmesg command to see if there are any errors associated with the drive.
 
Old 10-25-2014, 02:58 PM   #3
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Yes. Ide drives can be picky on cable select and primary jumper settings and connector position is used on the 40 pin ribbon cable.
My IBM M41 is picky that way. You can compare permissions on my laptop computer.

Code:
brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Oct 25 11:17 /dev/sr0
the terminal command is

Code:
ls -l /dev/sr0
Mine is sata though and works just fine.

Edit: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/art...missions-Guide

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Old 10-25-2014, 06:14 PM   #4
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What type of drive i.e PATA or SATA? If it is a PATA drive make sure the cable is plugged in correctly.

Check the output of the dmesg command to see if there are any errors associated with the drive.
Thanks for the tip, It's a PATA drive, initially I had problems with a cable so I replaced it and the drive shows up in lshw (as a cdrom, read only, ready, /dev/sr0 & under the disk utility as pioneer cd/dvd drive, pioneer dvdrw.

When I ran dmesg the drive did NOT show up at all though.

When I installed it, I didn't do anything to remove the original dvdrom from the system or to install anything for the new dvdrw, simply just physically switched them out, like a seasoned windows user :/
 
  


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