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django

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Registered: 2006-10-29

Posts: 11

CD/DVD mounting problem

I'm posting here since I'm not sure about all the commands involved, though I have been running arch for half a year without many problems.
But now it seems no DVD or CD will mount, even though they mounted automatically some weeks ago when I last tried, and I have failed solving this problem despite trying for at least one hour.

hal is running.

In my fstab I have

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd        /mnt/dvd    udf,iso9660      ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd   udf   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0

(I just added ",iso9660" to the dvd line, as suggested in a thread here.)

If I try to mount a dvd with "mount -t iso9660 /dev/dvd  /mnt/dvd" I get
"mount: No medium found".

If I try to watch a video dvd with gxine, I get

libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1.1.6 from http://xine.sf.net
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
libdvdnav: vm: faild to open/read the DVD
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1.1.6 from http://xine.sf.net
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
libdvdnav: vm: faild to open/read the DVD
xine-lib: error: Read error from::  /dev/dvd
xine-lib: error: The xine engine failed to start.: No input plugin was found.
Maybe the file does not exist or cannot be accessed, or there is an error in the URL.

(I get the same when I try the gxine menu, or "gxine dvd://1" or "gxine dvd://dev/dvd".

I noted that /dev/dvd now points to /dev/cd/dvd-sr0 which points to /dev/sr0, which it maybe didn't before, but that shouldn't affect this, should it?

I am grateful for any help!

coolpyrofreak

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From: Colorado Springs

Registered: 2006-03-13

Posts: 54

Re: CD/DVD mounting problem

what does your dmesg output look like?

django

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Registered: 2006-10-29

Posts: 11

Re: CD/DVD mounting problem

Thanks,
I think this is what you asked for?

$ dmesg | grep sr
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
 sda:<7>sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5

But it might be the CD-rom which suddenly decided to die.
I just got the idea to try to boot from a live-CD, but that failed. The CD-rom just made some noise, like it was trying multiple times to read the CD.

Last edited by django (2007-05-18 15:15:16)

django

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Registered: 2006-10-29

Posts: 11

Re: CD/DVD mounting problem

I'll try cleaning my cd-rom drive/cd-rom lens, as described in
http://www.howtodothings.com/computers/ … drive.html

EDIT: I opened it, but I couldn't see any dust. I wiped off the lens with a cotton swab anyway, but with no result, so I might have to get a new CD-ROM.

Last edited by django (2007-05-18 21:12:19)