LinuxQuestions.org - DVD/CD-RW problem. DVD works, CD dosen't.

It looks like it is tough to find a solution to this problem. I've been searching all day. The problem is that my DVD/CD-RW drive used to work, now only DVDs are recognized. I've tried numerous CDs, I cleaned the lense, same problem. I'm currently using a NEC LaVie L LL800R/7 laptop running Kubuntu 2.6.12-10-386.

First of all, here is what lspci said...

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0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03)

0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]

0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 42)

0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)

0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1a)

0000:00:07.4 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)

0000:00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)

0000:00:07.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Intel 537 [AC97 Modem] (rev 30)

0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

0000:00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 80)

0000:00:0a.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 80)

0000:00:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): NEC Corporation IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 01)

0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)

I found this odd little bit in dmesg:

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[4294671.758000] Probing IDE interface ide1...

[4294672.550000] hdc: UJDA710, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

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.  **Probing other IDE interfaces and finding nothing here**

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[4294675.629000] hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache

[4294675.629000] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20

Seems it is probably the driver, but I remembered with windows it seemed to be some kind of generic driver, although now I'm not sure.

When a DVD is inserted, demsg gives me something like this:

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[4298023.345000] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3

[4298023.608000] ISOFS: changing to secondary root

Any CD I insert does not even log anything.

Oh, and of course, here is my fstab. As you can see, I have played around with it a little and nothing worked.

Code:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.

#

# <file system> <mount point>  <type>  <options>      <dump>  <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid,nouser 0 1

/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0

#/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0  udf,iso9660 user,noauto    0      0

/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto ,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid,user 0 0

# /dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660  0 0

# /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 auto ,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid,users 0 0

/dev/hdc                /media/cdrom0            auto    auto,user,ro 0 0

I've tried mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0, I've tried some more plain variations. Tried disks burnt in windows and linux. I get nothing. Googled and could find nothing usefull about this drive, but that may be I just don't know what I'm looking for exactly.

Hopefully this is an interesting problem. I'll post any other info I can get if more is needed. Any advice would be appreciated.