My Dvd rom is not responding

Encho · 2010-09-13 09:32:34

I've just started using Linux and it's great. I use Arch and as the topic says my dvd rom is not responding - when I insert a disk with movie for ex. it's fine, but it just won't detect an empty cd or dvd - what should I do?
Thanks

stefanwilkens · 2010-09-13 10:17:19

couple of questions:

with "detect" do you mean you're trying to burn something to the disc but your burn application fails to detect the empty disc?
what desktop environment do you use? gnome, kde, lxde.. perhaps openbox?

if you are using gnome and brasero (default gnome burning application), try installing gvfs.

$ sudo pacman -S gvfs

then try again

karol · 2010-09-13 12:29:22

There are a couple posts on this forum about "can't see a blank CD / DVD". You can check them out.

Encho · 2010-09-13 18:38:52

stefanwilkens wrote:

couple of questions:
with "detect" do you mean you're trying to burn something to the disc but your burn application fails to detect the empty disc?
what desktop environment do you use? gnome, kde, lxde.. perhaps openbox?
if you are using gnome and brasero (default gnome burning application), try installing gvfs.
$ sudo pacman -S gvfs
then try again

thanks for the quick response.
Yes, I am trying to burn an iso image, but it's not only the burn application - my pc is not detecting the emptu dvd...
I use kde desktop environment - Platform Version 4.5.1 (KDE 4.5.1)
I tried $ sudo pacman -S gvfs but still nothing.
any other suggestions?

karol · 2010-09-13 18:46:06

You have a DVD-burner and you insert a blank DVD and the app says there's no medium in the drive?

Just a couple of quick checks:
1. Are you sure you can burn DVDs, maybe it's just a combo drive: you can read DVDs, but not write them. Have you been able to burn them on this computer before? Using the same apps?
2. Usually, you don't need to mount the empty disc, if you try to, you most likely fail.

What other apps are malfunctioning? What do you mean by "my pc is not detecting the empty dvd"? How would you like the system to respond to an empty DVD? Is what you're trying to do working on your other computers or on other distros?

stefanwilkens · 2010-09-13 19:09:06

if you're using KDE then I assume you're using K3B to burn? if so then you probably don't have dvd+rw-tools installed, as it is an optional dependency. It is required for dvd burning though.

please do:

sudo pacman -S dvd+rw-tools

and after that, with the empty dvd in the drive:

dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/dvd

and please post the output of that last command

Last edited by stefanwilkens (2010-09-13 19:12:29)

Encho · 2010-09-13 19:33:35

stefanwilkens wrote:

if you're using KDE then I assume you're using K3B to burn? if so then you probably don't have dvd+rw-tools installed, as it is an optional dependency. It is required for dvd burning though.
please do:
sudo pacman -S dvd+rw-tools
and after that, with the empty dvd in the drive:
dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/dvd
and please post the output of that last command

you are absolutely right I use K3b, but I have the dvd+rw-tools installed
here is hat happened after the last command:

INQUIRY: [TSSTcorp][CDRWDVD TS-H492C][DE02]
GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION:
Mounted Media: 10h, DVD-ROM
GET [CURRENT] PERFORMANCE:
Write Performance: 0.0x1385=0KB/s@[0 -> 0]
:-[ READ DVD STRUCTURE#0 failed with SK=2h/MEDIUM NOT PRESENT - TRAY CLOSED]: No medium found
DVD-ROM media detected, exiting...

Encho · 2010-09-13 19:40:17

karol wrote:

You have a DVD-burner and you insert a blank DVD and the app says there's no medium in the drive?
Just a couple of quick checks:
1. Are you sure you can burn DVDs, maybe it's just a combo drive: you can read DVDs, but not write them. Have you been able to burn them on this computer before? Using the same apps?
2. Usually, you don't need to mount the empty disc, if you try to, you most likely fail.
What other apps are malfunctioning? What do you mean by "my pc is not detecting the empty dvd"? How would you like the system to respond to an empty DVD? Is what you're trying to do working on your other computers or on other distros?

I have never tried to, my friend has the same pc and he can...
Usually when I incert a device, cd or dvd my device notifier reacts and a notification window pops with icon of the devece or cd (dvd). When I put a blank dvd however nothing happens.
I tried the same disks ot a windows laptop and the laptop detected the blank dvd.

karol · 2010-09-13 19:45:21

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index … 310AAsIVcj - seems your drive doesn't support burning DVDs. If it's true, there's nothing we can do about it.
Are you 100% sure your friend doesn't have a DVD-burner?

I asked about other Linux distros, Windows does things a bit differently. Does your friend use Arch or some other Linux distro?
Just because you have no notification doesn't mean there's something wrong, but if you can't burn - that's surely a problem.

Please post the output of 'groups' (type the command into the terminal without the quotes). For me it looks like that:

[karol@black test]$ groups
tty disk wheel log locate http video audio optical floppy storage users

Last edited by karol (2010-09-13 19:49:07)

fsckd · 2010-09-13 19:49:53

Give us the output from:

cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info

isoinfo -d -i /dev/dvd/or/whatever/path/to/device # do this with blank dvd in drive

Encho · 2010-09-13 22:47:19

karol wrote:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index … 310AAsIVcj - seems your drive doesn't support burning DVDs. If it's true, there's nothing we can do about it.
Are you 100% sure your friend doesn't have a DVD-burner?

I asked about other Linux distros, Windows does things a bit differently. Does your friend use Arch or some other Linux distro?
Just because you have no notification doesn't mean there's something wrong, but if you can't burn - that's surely a problem.
Please post the output of 'groups' (type the command into the terminal without the quotes). For me it looks like that:
[karol@black test]$ groups
tty disk wheel log locate http video audio optical floppy storage users

here is what I got:

video audio optical pulse encho
tty: extra operand `disk'
/dev/pts/2

karol · 2010-09-13 22:49:09

Encho wrote:

karol wrote:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index … 310AAsIVcj - seems your drive doesn't support burning DVDs. If it's true, there's nothing we can do about it.
Are you 100% sure your friend doesn't have a DVD-burner?

I asked about other Linux distros, Windows does things a bit differently. Does your friend use Arch or some other Linux distro?
Just because you have no notification doesn't mean there's something wrong, but if you can't burn - that's surely a problem.
Please post the output of 'groups' (type the command into the terminal without the quotes). For me it looks like that:
[karol@black test]$ groups
tty disk wheel log locate http video audio optical floppy storage users
here is what I got:
video audio optical pulse encho
tty: extra operand `disk'
/dev/pts/2

You're in optical group, so that's not the problem. I think the most important will be the output of

cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info

Encho · 2010-09-13 22:49:35

fsckd wrote:

Give us the output from:
cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info
isoinfo -d -i /dev/dvd/or/whatever/path/to/device # do this with blank dvd in drive

here is what I get:

drive name: sr0
drive speed: 48
drive # of slots: 1
Can close tray: 1
Can open tray: 1
Can lock tray: 1
Can change speed: 1
Can select disk: 0
Can read multisession: 1
Can read MCN: 1
Reports media changed: 1
Can play audio: 1
Can write CD-R: 1
Can write CD-RW: 1
Can read DVD: 1
Can write DVD-R: 0
Can write DVD-RAM: 0
Can read MRW: 0
Can write MRW: 0
Can write RAM: 0

isoinfo -d -i /dev/dvd/or/whatever/path/to/device # do this with blank dvd in drive
isoinfo: Not a directory. Cannot open '/dev/dvd/or/whatever/path/to/device'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
isoinfo: Not a directory. Unable to open /dev/dvd/or/whatever/path/to/device

karol · 2010-09-13 22:50:24

Can write DVD-R: 0
Can write DVD-RAM: 0

Sorry, ti's a combo-drive, not a DVD-burner.

You can read and write CDs but you can only read DVDs.

Last edited by karol (2010-09-13 22:51:50)

Encho · 2010-09-13 23:12:09

karol wrote:

Can write DVD-R: 0
Can write DVD-RAM: 0
Sorry, ti's a combo-drive, not a DVD-burner.

sorry for the trouble guys. will know next time...now I have to learn how to create a virtual cd linux is so much fun

karol · 2010-09-13 23:20:14

Encho wrote:

karol wrote:
Can write DVD-R: 0
Can write DVD-RAM: 0
Sorry, ti's a combo-drive, not a DVD-burner.

sorry for the trouble guys. will know next time...now I have to learn how to create a virtual cd linux is so much fun

Virtual CD? You want to mount an iso file?

mount -t iso9660 -o loop file.iso /mnt

Encho · 2010-09-13 23:46:11

karol wrote:

Encho wrote:
karol wrote:
Can write DVD-R: 0
Can write DVD-RAM: 0
Sorry, ti's a combo-drive, not a DVD-burner.

sorry for the trouble guys. will know next time...now I have to learn how to create a virtual cd linux is so much fun
Virtual CD? You want to mount an iso file?
mount -t iso9660 -o loop file.iso /mnt

Yep that's why I wanted to burn a dvd in the firs place. I have this iso image with name sadvd.iso and I cannot mount it.
It is supposed to be a game - gta3 for windows. my frends say linux is better but not possible to play any game you want so I downoaded one game gta3, opened it with wine and it's not working properly - it lags, a lot. I couldn't fix that so I downloaded gta san andreas from pirate bay and tried to mount the image of burn it on dvd - failed in both.
I want to proove that in linux everything is possible! I'am just not good enough yet.

mount -t iso9660 -o loop sadvd.iso /mnt
sadvd.iso: No such file or directory

Can you please tell me - what am I doing wrong now?
P.S thanks for the patience

skunktrader · 2010-09-13 23:50:16

mount -t iso9660 -o loop path/to/file/sadvd.iso /mnt

karol · 2010-09-13 23:59:42

1. I think you need to familiarize yourself with the basics of computers and Liinux in general. I'm just not sure if Arch is the best Linux distro for beginners. If you want to play games, maybe staying on Windows would be a better choice.
2. You mention Pirate Bay - no pirating on the forums, OK?
3. Mounting a file and playing it in wine is not the same. If you have problems that winehq (e.g. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p … on&iId=936 ) doesn't solve, open another thread, because this one is getting "blurry". Don't forget to add [solved] to the title if the original problem has been solved.

Encho · 2010-09-13 23:59:54

skunktrader wrote:

mount -t iso9660 -o loop path/to/file/sadvd.iso /mnt

mount -t iso9660 -o loop home/desktop/gta San Andreas/GTA San Andreas DVD +Crack/sadvd.iso /mnt
Usage: mount -V : print version
mount -h : print this help
mount : list mounted filesystems
mount -l : idem, including volume labels
So far the informational part. Next the mounting.
The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'.
Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.
mount -a [-t|-O] ... : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab
mount device : mount device at the known place
mount directory : mount known device here
mount -t type dev dir : ordinary mount command
Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts
a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device.
One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere:
mount --bind olddir newdir
or move a subtree:
mount --move olddir newdir
One can change the type of mount containing the directory dir:
mount --make-shared dir
mount --make-slave dir
mount --make-private dir
mount --make-unbindable dir
One can change the type of all the mounts in a mount subtree
containing the directory dir:
mount --make-rshared dir
mount --make-rslave dir
mount --make-rprivate dir
mount --make-runbindable dir
A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom,
or by label, using -L label or by uuid, using -U uuid .
Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd].
For many more details, say man 8 mount .
[root@nincompoop ~]# mount -t iso9660 -o loop /home/desktop/gta San Andreas/GTA San Andreas DVD +Crack/sadvd.iso /mnt
Usage: mount -V : print version
mount -h : print this help
mount : list mounted filesystems
mount -l : idem, including volume labels
So far the informational part. Next the mounting.
The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'.
Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.
mount -a [-t|-O] ... : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab
mount device : mount device at the known place
mount directory : mount known device here
mount -t type dev dir : ordinary mount command
Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts
a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device.
One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere:
mount --bind olddir newdir
or move a subtree:
mount --move olddir newdir
One can change the type of mount containing the directory dir:
mount --make-shared dir
mount --make-slave dir
mount --make-private dir
mount --make-unbindable dir
One can change the type of all the mounts in a mount subtree
containing the directory dir:
mount --make-rshared dir
mount --make-rslave dir
mount --make-rprivate dir
mount --make-runbindable dir
A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom,
or by label, using -L label or by uuid, using -U uuid .
Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd].
For many more details, say man 8 mount .

why?

karol · 2010-09-14 00:04:34

1. Please, use [code ] tags for code output. https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode
2. Use a valid path, both absolute and relative should be fine. Is you don't knwo what an absolute path is, I recommend you start reading up and come back when you know something.
3. Related to the above - you need to quote the path or otherwise escape spaces etc.

Encho · 2010-09-14 00:09:12

karol wrote:

1. Please, use [code ] tags for code output. https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode
2. Use a valid path, both absolute and relative should be fine. Is you don't knwo what an absolute path is, I recommend you start reading up and come back when you know something.
3. Related to the above - you need to quote the path or otherwise escape spaces etc.

Will do so - hope to be back soon.
Thanks

Encho · 2010-09-14 00:58:00

karol wrote:

1. I think you need to familiarize yourself with the basics of computers and Liinux in general. I'm just not sure if Arch is the best Linux distro for beginners. If you want to play games, maybe staying on Windows would be a better choice.
2. You mention Pirate Bay - no pirating on the forums, OK?
3. Mounting a file and playing it in wine is not the same. If you have problems that winehq (e.g. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p … on&iId=936 ) doesn't solve, open another thread, because this one is getting "blurry". Don't forget to add [solved] to the title if the original problem has been solved.

1. I like linux and you should know that once started on linux there is no turnig back...

2. OK

3. I thought that I needed to create a virtual cd for the game first and than...you are right this is getting blurry... the original problem turned out to be my lack of knowledge about my computer and linux in general... the topic should be removed, because it doesn't solve - not responding dvd rom - it's a dead end.

thanks a lot for the patience and understanding I will stick to Arch and just read more

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