[olug] SuSE 9.3 DVD issues

[Mario Steele]

Jake,

Have you disabled the auto-mount function in SuSE 9.3/Gnome/KDE/Whatever 
itself?  I have noticed, even though the fstab has automount disabled, 
that Some Window Managers, and some Distro's will raw patch code in, to 
detect when a CD is inserted, and automount the device.  This tends to 
have dis-agreements with the command-line mount/umount system.  As to 
some DVD's working, and Some Not, have you checked to make sure that the 
DVD's your attempting to use (If they are custom written), are DVD R[/W] 
Single Layer, or DVD R[/W] Double Layer?  I've known some DVD-Roms, and 
DVD Players themselvs, to have trouble with Single-Layer, and 
Double-Layer media.  It may be the problem your having as well

Mario Steele

Jake Churchill 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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