kirko birilli wrote <snip>: > > hi paul, > hope that helps with your problem.found it while looking for a solution for > my msi-laptop dvd writer.was messing around with udev as well and the > discussion in the bug report... > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/udev/+bug/554433 >
Kirko (or Shen? help me figure out who I'm replying to), That was useful, if only to eliminate something. I tried opening Disk Utility, and the drive does not show up at all. > > From: Kenneth Koym wrote <snip> > If I didn't two > family members in separate hospitals, I review bugs related to installation > kills. Appears very rare that 9.10 & 10.04 produce a dead HP DVD Writer > 840d > reading. Suggest google may supply you a work around. > Thanks for letting Ubuntu Studio techs have a chance to solve the > mystery. > > Ken > I don't want you spending time on this, take care of family matters and please don't neglect your own needs either...I will Google away. Installation kills...never heard of such a thing. The actual hardware is alive, it is detected by Bios and can boot live CDs. I apologize, I gave up on this list too soon and posted on ubuntu-studio-developers; somebody's helping there as well...maybe we can at least get my hardware working, but hopefully, get this patched so it doesn't happen to other users. I'm sure everyone wants a multimedia production distro to detect common optical drives. Thanks, PD > > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Paul DeShaw <pauldes...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > In a previous post I reported that Ubuntu Studio 9.10 could not find my > HP > > DVD Writer 840d; this issue was never resolved. I have done a clean > install > > of 10.04 and have the same problem--From the first boot, the very drive > that > > read the install DVD, does not exist as far as Ubuntu Studio is > concerned. > > Since the drive worked fine while running generic Ubuntu 9.10 from a > flash > > drive, I could probably fix the problem simply by installing the generic > > 10.04 and adding the Studio packages. However, if there is any interest > in > > finding and fixing this Ubuntu Studio-specific problem, I am willing to > keep > > this install and work with the list to get it ironed out. I would really > > like to see Ubuntu Studio work for as many people as possible. I am > > concerned that the adoption of Ubuntu Studio could be seriously hindered > if > > such common hardware is not usable. Does anyone want to work on this > with > > me? > > > > --Paul in Seattle >
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