[Tfug] fail to read cdrom in ubuntu

[earljviolet at deserthowler.com]

In Ubuntu 9.10 Fresh inatall I have the CD/DVD in /media/cdrom or /dev/sr0
depending how I locate it.  It reads both CD and DVD.

Earl

On Wed, December 16, 2009 3:07 pm, JD Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Claude Rubinson <rubinson at u.arizona.edu>
> wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 06:33:52PM -0600, JD Rogers wrote:
>>> I get nothing useful in dmesg, kern.log or any other places I know to
>>> look. Somewhere along the line, mounting has become more complicated
>>> than "mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom" and I failed to keep
>>> up with how hal and other things deal with all this. Does anyone have
>>> any ideas of how to even narrow down the possibilities of what is
>>> failing?
>>
>> I wish that HAL, D-BUS, and the rest of the family had been strangled
>> in the crib.  I might have just stumbled across the same problem on my
>
> Agreed. Automagicness is great until it breaks and then you wish you
> could just fscking mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /media/cdrom.
>
>> Debian Testing system.  It seems that some daemon has remapped my
>> cd-drive to /dev/cdrom3.  The only reason that I happened to figure it
>> out was by trying to play a DVD with SMPlayer, which complained when
>> it couldn't find a disc in /dev/cdrom and autodetected /dev/cdrom3.
>> Bah!
>
> That's *probably* different. That may be fixable by linking /dev/cdrom
> to the proper device. You can test if it is the same problem as me by
> inserting a data disk in the drive and then try mounting it manually
> using the correct device (hda, sr0, whatever). If it fails with no
> media found, see if it works for a dvd data disk. My issue is that dvd
> works, but cdrom's do not.
>
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