Re: DVD drive no longer mounts - More info

2007-07-30 Thread D. Kettler
So I have had time to look into this problem some more and I have concluded that it really is a hardware issue. It seems my drive is on its last legs and this was just a symptom of that fact. Thanks to everyone who tried to help out, though. -- David Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSC

Re: DVD drive no longer mounts - More info

2007-07-28 Thread D. Kettler
I had similar problems recently, but I don't know if it is the same as what you have. I finally tracked it down to udftools causing the problem, so I just do a '/etc/init.d/udftools stop'. That works for default CD/DVD work, but I have to re-enable it for DVD+RW/CD-RW. If you don't have udftoo

Re: DVD drive no longer mounts - More info

2007-07-28 Thread D. Kettler
I checked dmesg and noticed several: Buffer I/O error on device hdb, logical block errors. Again, hdb is the drive in question. Does anyone know what these errors mean? Also, the output of hdparm: gosroth:~# hdparm /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: IO_support= 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on)

Re: DVD drive no longer mounts

2007-07-28 Thread D. Kettler
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 01:01:48PM -0700, D. Kettler wrote: Sorry in advance for the long post, but I'm trying to provide any information that might be helpful for diagnosing the problem. The following is on an existing installation tha

DVD drive no longer mounts

2007-07-28 Thread D. Kettler
Sorry in advance for the long post, but I'm trying to provide any information that might be helpful for diagnosing the problem. The following is on an existing installation that has worked fine for some time now. I recently discovered that my DVD+-R/W drive will not even mount data discs, sho