[lug] DVD driver spits out disk?

[Riggs, Rob]

I have a CD-ROM drive on my workstation, and with recent 2.4 kernels it says
something about DVD in the CDROM detection line ("hdc: BCD-40XH CD-ROM,
ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive"). The CD-ROM I have is manifestly *not* DVD capable.
It's way too old. It doesn't sound like you are too certain of its DVD
capability. It probably is not a DVD drive.

-Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael J. Hammel [mailto:mjhammel at graphics-muse.org]
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 2:18 PM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: [lug] DVD driver spits out disk?


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?
-- 
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The Graphics Muse           |    women merely players.
mjhammel at graphics-muse.org  |            Shakespeare, "As You Like It", II,
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