[Klug-general] dvd problems

[George Prowse]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:49 PM, sharon kimble <boudiccas at talktalk.net>wrote:

> On Tuesday 18 October 2011 17:30:57 George Prowse wrote:
> > On 18/10/2011 16:52, sharon kimble wrote:
> > > i've just tried to load a blank DVD into the DVD drive in preparation
> of
> > > burning it, and it rattles around but is not 'seen'. The widget in the
> > > system tray doesn’t show that its seen, so i guess that its not seen.
> > > Neither k3b or brassero see the blank DVD either and just prompt me to
> > > insert a blank disc. I've tried it with two different makes of DVD but
> > > neither is seen.
> > >
> > > So I inserted a burnt DVD that it did a few days ago, and it doesn’t
> see
> > > that either. I've tried ...... mount /media/cdrom ....... but it just
> > > comes back with "mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0"
> > >
> > > Any ideas please for solutions to my problem?
> > >
> > > Sharon.
> >
> > The only thing you can really do is test it with a pre-burned dvd (best
> > try it with a cd as well) and if neither works then it is broken.
> >
> > George
>
> Thanks George, its loaded a music CD and a shop-bought DVD which is a good
> sign, but its just refusing to load the blank DVD's.
>
> Thanks
> Sharon.
>

It's quite possible that the blank DVDs are defective. The annoying thing
about these problems is it's just trial and error. Do you have another OS
you can test it with? Lastly one thing that has fixed it for me before is
cleaning outside of the disc and moving it slightly off middle in the drive
tray.
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