[K12OSN] Fwd: DVD not working on server

Peter Scheie peter at scheie.homedns.org
Sat Jun 16 02:44:17 UTC 2007


What does 'cdrecord --scanbus' show?

Peter

Krsnendu dasa wrote:
> Oops Sent this to the wrong address!
> I was wondering why I got no reply!
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Krsnendu dasa <krsnendu108 at gmail.com>
> Date: 14-Jun-2007 16:58
> Subject: DVD not working on server
> To: K12ltsp <k12ltsp at morleyschool.net>
> 
> 
> My dvd doesn't seem to work.
> I have a ide ata DVD writer on on my main server.
> I want to copy something onto dvd.
> When I put in a blank cd also nothing happens.
> When I put a CD in it spins up but nothing comes up in the file manager.
> 
> I tried the following, but it didn't seem to do anything.
> 
> mkdir /media/cdrecorder
> mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder
> 
> I am running the operating system on one LV on SATA with another LV on
> another SATA drive storing Backuppc data.
> 
> In bios the drive is recognized and is set to auto.
> 
> Is there anything I can do on the software side to try to get it
> going? Or is this just a faulty drive?  IIRC It was working at one
> stage at least as a reader.
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> Krsnendu dasa
> 
> more info:
> dmesg recognizes the drive
> When I try to mount the drive (with a good cd inside) I get this message:
> 
> [root at k12ltsp1 ~]# mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/hda /media/dvdrecorder
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda,
>      missing codepage or other error
>      In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>      dmesg | tail  or so
> 
> [root at k12ltsp1 ~]# dmesg | tail
> isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hda, iso_blknum=16, block=16
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> hda: rw=0, want=68, limit=4
> isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hda, iso_blknum=16, block=16
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> hda: rw=0, want=68, limit=4
> isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hda, iso_blknum=16, block=16
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> hda: rw=0, want=68, limit=4
> isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hda, iso_blknum=16, block=16
> [root at k12ltsp1 ~]# dmesg | tail
> 
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