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jeffmikels

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Registered: 2007-04-19

Posts: 36

[SOLVED] Blu-ray Drive can't recognize Blu-ray discs anymore

Yes, you can make fun of my hardware, but I'd like to get some advice too:

I have a no-name SATA Blu-ray drive plugged into a PCI SATA controller on my old dual Xeon home server. It has worked fine for a couple years now, and I have been able to successfully rip DVDs, CDs, and Blu-rays with it until recently.

Last night, as I was trying to rip a new movie, I inserted a Blu-ray disc, and the udev new disc insert event didn't even fire. I have tried multiple Blu-ray discs and multiple reboots, but no Blu-ray disc is being recognized at all. The drive still recognizes DVDs just fine, but for some reason, it isn't reading any Blu-ray at all.

With a Blu-ray disc inserted, this is what

udevadm info

gives me:

[jeff@adam ~]$ udevadm info /dev/sr0
P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:02:1f.0/0000:04:01.0/ata3/host2/target2:0:0/2:0:0:0/block/sr0
N: sr0
S: bdrom
S: disk/by-id/ata-ATAPI_BD_O_DH4O1S__W___W__pWM__W__:W__
S: dvd
E: ACL_MANAGE=1
E: DEVLINKS=/dev/bdrom /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ATAPI_BD_O_DH4O1S__W___W__pWM__W__:W__ /dev/dvd
E: DEVNAME=/dev/sr0
E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:02:1f.0/0000:04:01.0/ata3/host2/target2:0:0/2:0:0:0/block/sr0
E: DEVTYPE=disk
E: ID_ATA=1
E: ID_ATA_SATA=1
E: ID_ATA_SATA_SIGNAL_RATE_GEN1=1
E: ID_BUS=ata
E: ID_CDROM=1
E: ID_CDROM_BD=1
E: ID_CDROM_CD=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD=1
E: ID_CDROM_MRW=1
E: ID_CDROM_MRW_W=1
E: ID_MODEL=ATAPI_BD_O_DH4O1S
E: ID_MODEL_ENC=ATAPI\x20\x20\x20BD\x20\x20O\x20\x20DH4O1S\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20
E: ID_REVISION=2112
E: ID_SERIAL=ATAPI_BD_O_DH4O1S__W___W__pWM__W__:W__
E: ID_SERIAL_SHORT=_W___W__pWM__W__:W__
E: ID_TYPE=cd
E: MAJOR=11
E: MINOR=0
E: SUBSYSTEM=block
E: TAGS=:seat:systemd:uaccess:
E: UDISKS_PRESENTATION_NOPOLICY=0
E: USEC_INITIALIZED=96371

It seems that my Blu-ray drive is failing, but I'm wondering if this could be a Linux kernel or module or firmware problem since the drive reads DVDs just fine.

Last edited by jeffmikels (2014-06-21 05:51:40)

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jeffmikels

Member

Registered: 2007-04-19

Posts: 36

Re: [SOLVED] Blu-ray Drive can't recognize Blu-ray discs anymore

SOLUTION:

I bought a new Blu-ray drive, and it works great!

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...using Arch as a home server since 2006.