[olug] SuSE 9.3 DVD issues

[Jake Churchill]

When I run the mount command it does nothing.  I've tried different mount 
points in the fstab file and I've tried using the main device /dev/hdc 
instead of the reference /dev/dvd.  Nothing works.  However, after running 
the mount command, the device shows up in the mtab file mounted to /media/dvd 
like it's supposed to.  If I try umount, it says the device is busy.  I'm not 
brave enough to try to find a firmware update with Linux.  I don't think it's 
the kernel because when I put in certain DVDs it works fine and I am able to 
manually mount and unmount them.  The drive just will not read some DVDs that 
I have.  

The more I think about it, the more I think it's the drive itself.

On Sunday 21 August 2005 3:28 pm, Eric Lusk wrote:
> When you run the mount command does it tell you the
> device is busy, or does it say there's nothing to
> mount?
> If it says there's no DVD in the drive, it's probably
> the dvd drive itself; you may want to find out who
> made the drive and see if there's a firmware update
> for it, if you're really brave.
> If it says the device is busy it could be a problem
> with the kernel, but still could also be the drive
> itself reporting back incorrectly.
>
> --- jachurchill at cox.net wrote:
> > This may be a hardware question more so than Linux
> > but here's my issue.
> >
> > I have Dell Dimension running SuSE 9.3 (it has a DVD
> > ROM drive that came with
> > the PC).  I also have a PC that I built from
> > scratch, also running SuSE 9.3
> > (that one has a Sony DVD/CD-RW drive).
> >
> > My Dell is very picky about mounting DVDs.  Some
> > work, some don't.  I can't
> > manually mount them.  At least the command doesn't
> > work.  SuSE 9.3 doesn't
> > mount DVDs to the /media/dvd directory as indicated
> > in the fstab file, it
> > mounts them in a different folder in the /media
> > directory.  So if I put in
> > Office Space, it mounts it to
> > /media/OFFICESPACE_4X3.
> >
> > I have tried the DVDs that don't work in my Dell in
> > my other PC and they all
> > mount.  The custom built computer is a server and my
> > Dell is my main PC.  I'd
> > really rather not switch drives or PCs.  Can anyone
> > think of any reason why
> > this may be happening?
> >
> > The fstab files are the default in both installs and
> > the DVD drive line is as
> > follows for my Dell:
> >
> > /dev/dvd             /media/dvd           subfs
>
> noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8
>
> > 0 0
> >
> > and as follows for my custom built PC:
> >
> > /dev/cdrecorder      /media/cdrecorder    subfs
>
> noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8
>
> > 0 0
> >
> > No change other than the device reference.
> >
> > Any and all ideas will be helpfull other than switch
> > driver or dell sucks
> > becuase I'm aware of both these options already.
> >
> > Thanks.
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