I'm a newbie, running 14.04 on a Dell Optiplex 755, dual install with windows xp
the drive reads and plays audio cds and data cds fine. all DVDs spin for a few seconds, light blinks, then no more action. under Volumes it shows No Media. i installed and unpacked the extra codecs etc suggested at
http://howtoubuntu.org/how-to-play-a-dvd-in-ubuntu and looked a bunch of questions at howtoubuntu, none of which were solved.
the offending drive is a TSSTcorp DVD+/-RW TS-H653F (D200), aka /dev/sr0
Code:
sam@sam-OptiPlex-755:~$ sudo lshw -class disk
[sudo] password for sam:
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: WDC WD800JD-75MS
vendor: Western Digital
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: 10.0
serial: WD-WMAM9NU53671
size: 74GiB (80GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 sectorsize=512 signature=afc263fa
*-cdrom
description: DVD-RAM writer
product: DVD+-RW TS-H653F
vendor: TSSTcorp
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: D200
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
*-disk
description: SCSI Disk
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@6:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sdb
size: 465GiB (500GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: sectorsize=512 signature=49ec06f5
when i brought up Disks, in Mount Options, Automatic Mount Options was originally ON.
i've fiddled around in Disks with many restarts: mount at startup/not; different "identify as", for which there're 3 options:
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TSSTcorp_DVD+_-RW_TS-H653F
that one was the one it was originally set to
then there are
/dev/sr0
/dev/cdrom
all with corresponding mount points that appear automatically when i change the identify as. when i changed the mount options in Disks, away from ata-TSSTcorp_DVD+_-RW_TS-H653F (that guy), and restarted, i got startup errors, but audio cds would still play.
filesystem type is listed as auto
this is the current contents of /etc/fstab:
Code:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=cece2b45-a62b-484a-8db9-eb1f70f6d718 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=f1f4b9ac-3af4-4671-8e47-23190bb77bbb none swap sw 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TSSTcorp_DVD+_-RW_TS-H653F /mnt/ata-TSSTcorp_DVD+_-RW_TS-H653F auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show,noauto 0 0
i also note that there are no such folders as /dev/sr0 or /dev/cdrom
there is a /cdrom/ directory at root (?)
and folders for both sr0 and ata-TSSTcorp_DVD+_-RW_TS-H653F in /mnt/
and that's about all i know how to do.
any help would be greatly appreciated! i just need to install some software off a DVD! i dont even want to watch pirates of the carribean!
