[Sussex] New PC, frustration, frustration.

[Stephen Williams]

John,

Are you a member of the necessary groups?

audio cdrom cdrw 

If you're not a member of these groups you might not be able to access CDs or 
play them.

regards,

Steve W.

On Tuesday 21 June 2011 19:43:56 johnsemailaccount at gmail.com wrote:
> Wotcha List,
> 
> Ok, so I recently posted about how to move data from my old PC to the
> replacement (HO Pavilion p6799). As far as I can tell, it's a 64 bit
> machine, so I've installed Ubuntu 11.04 64bit.
> 
> Generally it seems to be working fine.
> 
> The biggest hassle was moving the data, as already mentioned. This was done
> by a mishmash of dropbox, DVD's and application specific answers
> like "xmarks" for firefox. Of the various challenges, re-installing my
> music has proved the worst.
> 
> Why? Because despite the success of completing the task (well 99%) - which
> did take an inordinate amount of time (my music is all in FLAC format, the
> file sizes and general amount of music to copy back to the new machine), I
> found a little problem that I can't, as yet, solve.
> 
> On one DVD (relating to the album/CD it was ripped from), there was an
> error that came up twice. It seems it was to do with excessively long song
> titles.
> 
> Ok thinks me, I can just re-rip the two tracks and I should be able to edit
> the song titles - No such luck.
> 
> While the system found and allowed me to copy the music DVD's back to the
> hard drive (well my /home/music), the machine doesn't seem to see the
> actual drive with an audio CD in it.
> 
> I've had a bit of a google, and as far as I can see, the system seems to
> see the drive, but the applications can't. I've looked at the /etc/fstab
> and there's no mention of it there.
> 
> Trying the "sudo lshw -C disk" command gives me this
> 
> "*-cdrom
> description: DVD-RAM writer
> product: DVD A DH16ABLH
> vendor: hp
> physical id: 1
> bus info: scsi at 2:0.0.0
> logical name: /dev/cdrom
> logical name: /dev/cdrw
> logical name: /dev/dvd
> logical name: /dev/dvdrw
> logical name: /dev/scd0
> logical name: /dev/sr0
> version: 3HD9
> capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
> configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc"
> 
> and the "sudo hdparm -I /dev/dvd" and "sudo hdparm -I /dev/cdrom" give me :-
> 
> "/dev/dvd:
> 
> ATAPI CD-ROM, with removable media
> Model Number: hp DVD A DH16ABLH
> Serial Number: 2N8101912541
> Firmware Revision: 3HD9
> Transport: Serial, ATA8-AST, SATA 1.0a, SATA II Extensions, SATA Rev 2.5,
> SATA Rev 2.6
> Standards:
> Likely used CD-ROM ATAPI-1
> Configuration:
> DRQ response: 50us.
> Packet size: 12 bytes
> cache/buffer size = unknown
> Capabilities:
> LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
> DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
> Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
> PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
> Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns
> Commands/features:
> Enabled Supported:
> * PACKET command feature set
> * DEVICE_RESET command
> * NOP cmd
> Removable Media Status Notification feature set
> * Gen1 signaling speed (1.5Gb/s)
> * Phy event counters
> Device-initiated interface power management
> Asynchronous notification (eg. media change)
> * Software settings preservation"
> 
> and
> 
> "/dev/cdrom:
> 
> ATAPI CD-ROM, with removable media
> Model Number: hp DVD A DH16ABLH
> Serial Number: 2N8101912541
> Firmware Revision: 3HD9
> Transport: Serial, ATA8-AST, SATA 1.0a, SATA II Extensions, SATA Rev 2.5,
> SATA Rev 2.6
> Standards:
> Likely used CD-ROM ATAPI-1
> Configuration:
> DRQ response: 50us.
> Packet size: 12 bytes
> cache/buffer size = unknown
> Capabilities:
> LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
> DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
> Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
> PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
> Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns
> Commands/features:
> Enabled Supported:
> * PACKET command feature set
> * DEVICE_RESET command
> * NOP cmd
> Removable Media Status Notification feature set
> * Gen1 signaling speed (1.5Gb/s)
> * Phy event counters
> Device-initiated interface power management
> Asynchronous notification (eg. media change)
> * Software settings preservation"
> 
> respectively.
> 
> Plus "dmesg | grep -i dvd" then tells me this
> 
> "[ 2.862292] ata3.00: ATAPI: hp DVD A DH16ABLH, 3HD9, max UDMA/100
> [ 2.865295] scsi 2:0:0:0: CD-ROM hp DVD A DH16ABLH 3HD9 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> [ 2.868894] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2
> cdda tray"
> 
> Another command, "ls -al /dev/sr*" gives me this
> 
> "brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 2011-06-21 20:17 /dev/sr0"
> 
> But I don't know what it all means (anyone can find commands on various
> forums etc and input them, but when it comes to de-cyphering them, it's a
> rather different matter) other than the system seems to see the the drive.
> So, I still have no idea how to get the damn device to detect discs when
> they're put in the drive.
> 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction please ?
> 
> regards
> 
> John D.