[olug] SuSE 9.3 DVD issues

[Eric Lusk]

yeah, there's always the risk of making the drive into
a boat anchor if you update the firmware.
I had a drive that was doing the same thing at one
point; I took the risk of updating the firmware and
got some additional functionality out of it, but it
ended up gradually getting worse.  I tried a firmware
update again, only to have it stop the motherboard's
BIOS while I was booting. <G>
I have a DVD/RW drive in its place now.

--- Jake Churchill <jachurchill at cox.net> wrote:

> 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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