cd/dvd drive does not work
 

[B]Hi,i just realise my cd/dvd drive does not work,i donwload and boot mint 14 cinnamon 64 with no problemes,ejected the dvd.everithing looks fine.When i wanted to put a dvd in the tray and press eject,nothing happened.When i double clik on Computer in the desktop the cd/dvd drive is there.when i right clik on it,go to properties,this is that it says:Basic:unknow type(application/octet-stream) Size:unknown Location:computer/// Volume:unknown Accessed:unknown Modified:unknown Permissions:The permissions of "cs/dvd drive"could not be determined .What can i do about this?thanks in advanced. dvd drive:TSSTcorp-CDDVDW SH-222AB i72300K MB:P8H61-M LE CSM SSD:OCZ Vertx3 60gb ATI radeon:6770

If there's media in the drive and it's mounted it wont let you eject it. Certain distros like ubuntu auto-mount pretty much everything, which can get annoying. Try to umount the device and then eject.

# umount /dev/sr0
# eject -r

Perhaps not as root if you have cdrom perms and other fstab-ish type stuff. Your device might differ. And you might need to install eject.

$ cat /proc/partitions
$ mount

To get a feel for what is where and by what name.

tthanks for the help ,but so far it's not working,this what i got from the terminal:picolas@picolas-System-Product-Name ~ $ # umount /dev/srO
picolas@picolas-System-Product-Name ~ $ # eject -r
picolas@picolas-System-Product-Name ~ $ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

8 0 58615704 sda
8 1 50244608 sda1
8 2 1 sda2
8 5 8368128 sda5
8 16 976762584 sdb
8 17 102400 sdb1
8 18 976657408 sdb2
11 0 1048575 sr0
picolas@picolas-System-Product-Name ~ $ mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /run/user type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/picolas/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=picolas)
picolas@picolas-System-Product-Name ~ $ if i start brasero,clik tool and eject i got this:The disc in "TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-222AB"cannot be ejected Error ejecting /dev/srO:Command-line `eject"/dev/srO"' exited with non-zero exit stats 1:eject:unable to eject,last error:Inappropriate ioctl for device any advice how to fix what?

if all else fails
there is a tiny ( VERY small) hole in the front

just the right size for a medium to heavy duty paper clip
unfold it and insert it and gently push

the tray will open manually

The hole in front with an unfolded paper clip will open the drive, even when the computer is off. I sometimes have to use that because a spilt drink from a few years back has made my trays front panel a bit sticky. If I don't use it for a while, it does need a little manual encouragement, but then it works just fine.

If it's an old drive, especially if there's smokers in the household, you may need to clean the laser lens. Not that that is your issue at the moment. Sometimes drives can freak out if you say insert the clear plastic cover discs that come in a pack. It sees the physical presence, but can't read it, and somehow that combo leaves in an unusable state. I've had a few discs that I've burned that have done that type of thing. When I got them out and looked at the media, there was such a small amount of the coating that you burn that you could almost see through them. This is why I always do the verify check box on k3b when I burn discs.

thanks for the help,but it did not work .i try 2 differents dvd drive,one is new and also could not eject the tray(it's a toshiba,samsung brand as the one original)the 2nd is a 2009 from dell and no probleme to eject the tray.Is where a bug with toshiba/samsung cd/dvd drive?Also with the dell dvd drive impossible to play dvd and cd:vlc is unable to open MRL'cdda:///dev/cdrom'.i tryed with smplayer,mplayer,banshee,same thing,looks like there is no detection of the cd/dvd.Any advises?

What is on the cd's and dvd's ?

for playing a store bought dvd in vlc or mplayer you will need libdvdcss to unscramble the movie


in the gui SMplayer you can select what drives to use

the gui has an option for setting the dvd and cd drive(s)

if a movie DVD is put in then a movie player needs to be used to access it

if libdvdcss is not installed then it can hang

Have you tried with just cdda:// for cdroms? Letting it find a default device on it's own? or dvd:// for dvds. Granted that encrypted dvds (most commercially bought ones) require libdvdcss which is likely not installed by default. There's also cddb:// but that pulls the disk meta data off the internet to help with more meaningful names.

From your previous post:
11 0 1048575 sr0
would imply that your drive is /dev/sr0 as well.


$ mplayer -ao pulse -vo null -cdrom-device /dev/sr0 cdda://
or
$ mplayer -ao pulse -vo null cdda://


works for me on audio cds. But using cdda:///dev/sr0 does not work. So that's just a commandline syntax issue. Although I seem to recall that that syntax used to work 5+ years ago. There's also a -dvd-device option.

$ mplayer -list-options | grep -i "dvd"

And various other ways to find out the particulars.