Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS

From	Johnny <johnny@invalid.net>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject	Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS
Date	2014-12-10 13:53 -0600
Organization	albasani.net
Message-ID	<20141210135319.15545cdb@johnnyspc.johnnyspc.net> (permalink)
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On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 20:46:51 +0100
Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> wrote:

> On Wednesday 10 December 2014 20:37, Johnny conveyed the following to 
> comp.os.linux.hardware...
> 
> > On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 13:13:15 -0600
> > Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> On 10 Dec 2014 18:09:07 GMT
> >> Kirk_Von_Rockstein <Kirk_Von_Rockstein@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > See my post later in this thread, and when those points
> >> > mentioned are covered, insert the DVD in question.
> >> > Manually mount the media:
> >> > mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/dvd
> >> > Then run:
> >> > ls -al /mnt/dvd
> >> > Do the text and html files show up in the output?
> >> 
> >> It says it's write protected.
> 
> CDs and DVDs are always mounted read-only.  Writing to them requires
> a different technique than reading them, and they are normally only 
> written to when they are _not_ mounted.
> 
> >> root@johnnyspc:/home/johnny# mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/dvd
> >> mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> >> 
> >> Yes I can see the names of the files.
> > 
> > I found this ins /etc/fstab
> > 
> > /dev/sr0        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0
> > 0
> > 
> > Should I change that to auto?
> 
> No.  "noauto" in the mount options in /etc/fstab simply means that
> the filesystem is not mounted automatically at boot time.  You don't
> want to have the system start looking for a filesystem on a CD/DVD to
> mount at boot time. ;-)
> 

The DVD icon doesn't show up in Computer, or Filesystem.  The only way
I can mount it is in the Terminal, and then I can't access the files, I
can only see the names.

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DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2014-12-09 12:44 -0600
  Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Markus Heinz <markus.heinz@uni-dortmund.de> - 2014-12-09 19:57 +0100
    Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2014-12-09 13:19 -0600
      Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Markus Heinz <markus.heinz@uni-dortmund.de> - 2014-12-09 20:51 +0100
        Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2014-12-09 14:17 -0600
          Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2014-12-09 20:25 +0000
            Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2014-12-09 14:52 -0600
              Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Robert Nichols <SEE_SIGNATURE@localhost.localdomain.invalid> - 2014-12-09 22:54 -0600
                Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2014-12-10 09:48 -0600
                Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Kirk_Von_Rockstein <Kirk_Von_Rockstein@nowhere.invalid> - 2014-12-10 16:26 +0000
                Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2014-12-10 10:45 -0600
                Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Kirk_Von_Rockstein <Kirk_Von_Rockstein@nowhere.invalid> - 2014-12-10 18:04 +0000
                Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2014-12-10 13:08 -0600
                Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Kirk_Von_Rockstein <Kirk_Von_Rockstein@nowhere.invalid> - 2014-12-10 19:59 +0000
                Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2014-12-10 13:08 -0600
                Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Kirk_Von_Rockstein <Kirk_Von_Rockstein@nowhere.invalid> - 2014-12-10 19:55 +0000
                Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2014-12-10 13:59 -0600
              Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2014-12-10 12:17 +0100
                Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Kirk_Von_Rockstein <Kirk_Von_Rockstein@nowhere.invalid> - 2014-12-10 13:33 +0000
                Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-12-10 13:33 -0500
      Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Kirk_Von_Rockstein <Kirk_Von_Rockstein@nowhere.invalid> - 2014-12-10 18:09 +0000
        Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2014-12-10 13:13 -0600
          Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2014-12-10 13:37 -0600
            Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-12-10 20:46 +0100
              Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2014-12-10 13:53 -0600
          Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Kirk_Von_Rockstein <Kirk_Von_Rockstein@nowhere.invalid> - 2014-12-10 20:30 +0000
            Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2014-12-10 14:42 -0600
            Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Johnny <johnny @invalid.net> - 2014-12-11 06:24 -0600
              Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-12-11 15:18 +0100
                Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS Johnny <johnny @invalid.net> - 2014-12-11 08:56 -0600

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