Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS

From	Kirk_Von_Rockstein <Kirk_Von_Rockstein@nowhere.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject	Re: DVD Drive not recognized after installing OS
Date	2014-12-10 18:09 +0000
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On 2014-12-09, Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Dec 2014 19:57:30 +0100
> Markus Heinz <markus.heinz@uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
>
>> Hello.
>> 
>> On 2014-12-09 at 19:44 Johnny wrote:
>> >
>> > I just got a computer that was refurbished by U.S. Micro
>> > Corporation. It came with Windows 7 Professional, and I installed
>> > Debian Wheezy along with it.
>> >
>> > The DVD drive worked perfectly during installation, and Windows can
>> > still read it. Wheezy doesn't know it's there.
>> >
>> > If I go to Computer in Wheezy, and insert a DVD, the DVD icon will
>> > show up while the light is flashing on the drive.  As soon as the
>> > light goes out, the icon disappears.
>> >
>> > I looked in the BIOS, and the DVD drive shows up first in the boot
>> > sequence.  I know the drive is good, but I don't know how to make
>> > the Debian operating system use it.
>> 
>> Which kind of DVD did you insert? If it had been a Video DVD the
>> reason the DVD icon disappeared might be that Debian does not ship a
>> required library to read CSS encrypted media due to legal reasons.
>> 
>> See the Debian wiki for a solution:
>> <https://wiki.debian.org/CDDVD#DVD>
>> 
>> Do Data DVDs like the Debian installation media show up in your file 
>> manager?
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Markus
>> 
>
> The DVD contains plain text, and HTML bookmarks.
>
> I was just trying to import my bookmarks.

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?

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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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