Re: [LAU] HP DVD840 optical drive not recognized by Ubuntu Studio

From: Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue May 11 2010 - 07:09:20 EEST

On 05/11/2010 02:02 PM, Paul DeShaw wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I rarely post here, because I am not in your league, technically
> speaking. But I have not been able to read or write optical media
> since I upgraded from Ubuntu Studio 8.04 to 9.10 some months ago. I
> have posted all over the place, and filed a bug report in Launchpad
> (#544772), shown people all kinds of terminal reports, loaded some
> kernel modules--sorry I can't document it here, it's spread all over
> the place. In the end, still no drive.
>
> Last weekend I did a fresh install of 10.04, just to see if anything
> changed. The only difference is there is no longer even a menu item
> for CD or DVD drives (though there is one for floppy drives[!]). I
> installed from a DVD, and at first boot, the drive it had just
> installed from, no longer existed as far as the system could tell. I
> can boot live CDs, and if I boot generic Ubuntu from a flash drive, I
> can use the CD/DVD drive.
>

It looks like an ubuntu studio config or driver issue.

Could you send the output of

     lspci -vv

Cheers.

Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd

> Can this be fixed, or is this just obsolete hardware? Is there a
> better distro for this drive? What information do you folks need to
> help me figure this out? I don't like having a multimedia production
> machine that can't even play a CD, much less save projects to one.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul in Seattle
>
>
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