AG wrote:
Hi
After my last machine crashed and burned, I replaced the box with an
HP Pavillion which has the following specs:
AMD Sempron 2300 Dual-Core
Dual Layer DVD Rewriter
With a fresh installation of Squeeze (using Netinst via a CD) there
have been several issues which I am progressively trying to work
through. I've never used a SATA drive before, so some of this may
just be my lack of familiarity with the system.
However, when I load up an audio CD nothing happens. When I go into
Xfce4's "File System" icon there is no CD/DVD drive listed, so
checking dmesg I note the following:
[ 2.926195] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM TSSTcorp CDDVDW
TS-H653Z 4403 PQ: 0 ANSI:5
[ 4.257290] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 4.257379] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
As I understand this, this would suggest that the CD-DVD drive *is*
being mounted at boot time, and is referred to by the system as "sr0".
Looking at /etc/fstab I find the following:
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,auto 0 0
Inserting an audio CD, KsCD (the CD-player program) correctly
identifies the track listing for the CD and I can eject the CD either
through the command-line or from KsCD. Goobox however just claims
"invalid device".
But, the CD/DVD icon still does not appear under "File System", nor
can I play any audio CDs.
Changing the /etc/fstab entry to reflect what dmesg picks up -
/dev/sr0 and reloading the CD makes no difference.
Using a DVD now as a test - at least I can now get an icon that
appears on both my desktop and in "file system". However, using
KMPlayer the DVD refuses to play - first with an error message that
mplayer is not running and then that gxine is not running. Using
mplayer directly, the error message is that "no media was opened".
Looking through Google, most of the links that seem associated with
various search terms (e.g. "sata cddvd /dev/scd0 debian", "sata
tsstcorp cddvd /dev/sr0 debian", and "tsstcorp cddvd /dev/sr0 debian")
point to either bugs in the kernel's handling of amd which was
supposed to have been fixed circa 2.26.25 (I'm using kernel
2.26.6-2-686), while other posts suggest modifying the /etc/fstab
directly. This I have tried to do by adding /dev/scd0 and /dev/cdrom
at different times. I even changed the filesystem type to "auto"
rather than the "udf" which was the default. None of these make any
difference at all.
Finally, looking at /dev/disk/by-id gives:
ata-WDC_WD3200AAJS-65M0A0_WD-WMAV22139666
ata-WDC_WD3200AAJS-65M0A0_WD-WMAV22139666-part1
ata-WDC_WD3200AAJS-65M0A0_WD-WMAV22139666-part2
ata-WDC_WD3200AAJS-65M0A0_WD-WMAV22139666-part3
scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAJS-_WD-WMAV22139666
scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAJS-_WD-WMAV22139666-part1
scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAJS-_WD-WMAV22139666-part2
scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAJS-_WD-WMAV22139666-part3
usb-EPSON_Stylus_Storage_L34020702070700430-0:0
usb-Generic-_Compact_Flash_20060413092100000-0:0
usb-Generic-_MS_MS-Pro_20060413092100000-0:3
usb-Generic-_SD_MMC_20060413092100000-0:2
usb-Generic-_SM_xD-Picture_20060413092100000-0:1
usb-Seagate_FreeAgentDesktop_9QG672LH-0:0
usb-Seagate_FreeAgentDesktop_9QG672LH-0:0-part1
The USB-Generic and USB-Seagate and USB-EPSON are all fine: I know
what they refer to. I don't know if the CD/DVD is referenced here
because I can't tell the references for ata-WDC and scsi-SATA apart.
One of them may refer to the USB- enclosure I had to put my last IDE
HDD into in order to copy data from it onto my SATA drive, but I don't
know for sure.
I have exhausted all of my limited skills in trying to (a) understand
what all of this is about and (b) how to fix it. Please help!!
Thanks in anticipation.
AG
A quick update on this:
Usinmg Rhythmbox I can now access audio CDs although via devices. No
other CD player touches it, except for VLC which then doesn't access the
cddb for track listings. KsCD still correctly identifies the tracks but
cannot play anything, and still no DVD discs are playable.
This is becoming a rapidly frustrating experience, so if anyone has any
suggestions on what this might be about, I'm up for hearing them.
Many thanks
AG
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