[lug] DVD driver spits out disk?

[Dhruva B. Reddy]

I hate to burst your bubble, but I don't think the "DVD" part means anything:

WAY2FONKY$ dmesg  | grep DVD
hdd: YAMAHA CRW2100E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
WAY2FONKY$ 

Unless, of course, this is some evil plot by the laser disc industry
to...

Aw, who am I kidding--I've never been good at conspiracy theories.

Dhruva

On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 03:17:49PM -0600, quoth Michael J. Hammel:
> Okay, I'm lost here.  I was playing around the other day and looking
> through my boot messages when I discovered that I appear to have a DVD
> capable CD drive:
> 
> Dec  4 17:17:25 brahe kernel: hdc: CREATIVE CD5230E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> Dec  4 17:33:06 brahe kernel: hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM DVD-RAM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
> 
> The first message comes from the boot, but the second appears to be when I
> tried to mount the device (or something similar).  
> 
> I don't have a /dev/dvd but I can access my CD drive just fine.  I
> installed mplayer with the libdvdread and libdvdcss libraries.  However, I
> haven't had a chance to actually try mplayer - every time I put a DVD in
> the drive it spins for a bit and then gets spit out.  It looks like
> something is trying to mount it or access it for some reason.  I disabled
> automount - it was running, but I commented out the CDROM line in
> /etc/auto.misc and restarted the automount daemon using
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs.  Still, the drive keeps spinning the DVD and then
> spitting it out.  
> 
> Why would it do that?  Is this drive not a DVD and the drive itself doesn't
> like the disk?  Or is something trying to mount the disk as a CDROM and,
> failing, forces the disk out?