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 that has worked fine for some time now. I recently discovered that my DVD+-R/W drive will not even mount data discs, shortly after updating my Debian testing installation, though I am not yet convinced this has anything to dow with the updateWhat all got updated? Did you change kernels? Do you still have the old one?
It was just a normal apt-get update; apt-get upgrade. I didn't keep track of everything, but I didn't change kernels. Honestly, I'm not entirely sure the update was the problem but it's all that I could think of.
You've only tested with the mount command. What about a command that reads disks without trying to mount them, such as cdck?
david@gosroth:~$ cdck -d /dev/hdbUnable to read TOC because unable to open cdrom '/dev/hdb', reason: No medium found
One thing that actually does work is 'eject /dev/hdb', which of course doesn't have anything to do with reading but it does at least show that it is the right device.
Doug.
Thanks. -- David Kettler dkettler@u.washington.edu