9.04 cannot mount CD/DVD drive.

[retiredtechie]

I thought everything was OK on my system until I tried opening an old DVD backup image archive but the thing wouldn't mount. I works OK in Windows XP and Vista. This only happens on "some" CDs and DVDs

fstab

/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

dmesg | tail -n10
[ 23.231188] atl1 0000:03:00.0: eth0 link is up 1000 Mbps full duplex
[ 34.168039] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 160.741823] UDF-fs: Partition marked readonly; forcing readonly mount
[ 160.790127] UDF-fs INFO UDF: Mounting volume '040731_1722', timestamp 2004/07/31 21:57 (1f4c)
[ 364.341919] UDF-fs: Partition marked readonly; forcing readonly mount
[ 364.389202] UDF-fs INFO UDF: Mounting volume '040731_1722', timestamp 2004/07/31 21:57 (1f4c)
[ 488.750833] UDF-fs: No VRS found
[ 488.759752] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
[ 1231.921463] UDF-fs: Partition marked readonly; forcing readonly mount
[ 1231.968756] UDF-fs INFO UDF: Mounting volume '040731_1722', timestamp 2004/07/31 21:57 (1f4c)

Houston, we have a problem!

[imenimen]

Maybe I need to buy a new dvd burner...

[dead-box]

Yeah, This has become very confusing. If anyone wants more info just ask. I check this thread a few times a day, being that I started it. I need to get this drive operational soon.


ANYONE PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN!!!!!!!

Sincerely, dead-box

[mc4man]

@ dead-box
Maybe run a few commands and see if anything jumps out.

In your first post was some info from lshw, this
"status=open"
normally indicates an open drive tray (was the tray open?

If possible put a dvd or cd with a known filesystem in the drive (a movie, data cd not burned on vista, an ubuntu live cd (did you install from a live cd?
Don't use a blank or audio cd

Then run from terminal and post complete output (copy and paste into your reply as text, then highlight with mouse and click on quote icon in message toolbar - fourth from right

sudo lshw -C disk

Then do the same for this

 grep "UDMA" /var/log/dmesg

If you have a live cd, if you insert it into the drive, (while you're running jaunty) do you get a 'This medium contains software' and 'software packages' pop ups?
(if so click cancel, mention in reply

bus info: scsi@4:0.0.0

That seems to be high for a cdrom drive on a laptop (..?) (assuming laptop because of the "ath5k phy0:...."
Did you have any external drives or cards connected when you installed and again, do mention how you installed jaunty.


At any point since you installed was the drive 'working'?

[tractor]

I'm having the same problem. DVD's that would play fine in Vista or Ubuntu 8.10 will not play in 9.04. The cd and DVD drives do not see the disk.

[dead-box]

@ mc4man

Here's list 1.

dead-box@dead-box-laptop:~$ sudo lshw -C disk
*-cdrom
description: DVD-RAM writer
product: CDDVDW TS-L632N
vendor: TSSTcorp
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@4:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/cdrw
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/dvdrw
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0
logical name: /media/cdrom0
version: 0503
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
configuration: ansiversion=5 mount.fstype=iso9660 mount.options=ro,nosuid,nodev,utf8 state=mounted status=ready
*-medium
physical id: 0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /media/cdrom0
configuration: mount.fstype=iso9660 mount.options=ro,nosuid,nodev,utf8 state=mounted
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: Hitachi HTS54251
vendor: Hitachi
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: BBCO
serial: 080129BB0C00WGJX68MC
size: 149GiB (160GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=9f66a003
dead-box@dead-box-laptop:~$


List 2

dead-box@dead-box-laptop:~$ grep "UDMA" /var/log/dmesg
[ 1.776152] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xf6484000 port 0xf6484100 irq 2301
[ 1.776155] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xf6484000 port 0xf6484180 irq 2301
[ 1.776157] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xf6484000 port 0xf6484200 irq 2301
[ 1.776160] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xf6484000 port 0xf6484280 irq 2301
[ 2.257254] ata1.00: ATA-8: Hitachi HTS542516K9SA00, BBCOC32P, max UDMA/100
[ 2.258222] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 3.269096] ata5: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0x30c0 irq 14
[ 3.269099] ata6: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0x30c8 irq 15
dead-box@dead-box-laptop:~$


Okay, there's both lists. Also, I installed using a live CD. But this is the awkward part. If I leave that CD in and restart it comes up with the install at boot. It also does this for my 8.04 disk that purchased with the super cool "Switching to Linux" handbook I got from Barnes & Noble. If I insert any other cd for a different OS it will do the same. XP, Vista, Gentoo, Debian, SuSe, Hackintosh OS-X Leopard, etc. It's just that it won't do anything while in Jaunty.

Also, Great appreciation and respect to all of you that have been reading through this thread and helping a Linux newbie understand the Open Source world. I really do appreciate it. Thank you.

[dead-box]

Strangely... it's working now? Go figure!?

Anyway, still thanks to everyone who helped along the way! Hopefully everyone else's problems will be solved. If I knew more I would certainly be helping as well. But, I am new relatively new to Linux.

[Horny Toad]

Strangely... it's working now? Go figure!?

Anyway, still thanks to everyone who helped along the way! Hopefully everyone else's problems will be solved. If I knew more I would certainly be helping as well. But, I am new relatively new to Linux.

Still not working for me.

Anyone have any ideas? Never had this issue with 8.10

[jspraggett]

Well, after many hours trying to find a software solution, I finally realized that it could be the drive.

I attached my Sony USB drive, and 'presto', it read restricted dvd's right away.

I suspect 9.04 is unkind to older dvd drives.

Time to upgrade the hardware -- unfortunately.

Jim

[it_col]

i had same problem. I'm using laptop Vaio NR498e. I installed 02 OS:
- Window 7 RC
- Ubutu 9.04
When i used Ubuntu8.10, my DVD-rom worked fine. But when i upgrade to 9.04. It's fail. I still can use my DVD-ROM in Window 7 RC.

I read the whole topic and i realize that no way to resolve my problem? .. so sad.

Anyone have any suggestion?