[Gllug] DVD/CD-RW combi problem

[Stephen Harker]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 12:34:56PM +0100, Michael Laycock wrote:
> Hello people, just joined this mailing list.
> 
> I have a problem. I have just migrated from Mandriva to (flavour of the
> moment) Ubuntu. I've managed to set everything up (which I never quite
> managed with Mandriva) with the aid of Automatix. The problem is with my
> DVD/CD-RW combi drive, it recognises all compatible media, including
> DVD's if they are data disks, but if I insert a DVD film the drive spins
> up for an eternity, then once finished with that the LED on the drive
> stays lit while Ubuntu tells me there is no disk in the drive to mount.
> Incidentally the drive worked flawlessly in Mandriva. Any ideas?

Please post any relevant information from dmesg relating to your DVD device (I presume it's /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd) and we'll have a better idea what is going wrong.

Stephen
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