fresh install ---blooming DVD drive not recognized AGAIN <SOLVED> now broken again.

[Johnny]

Have you replaced the 80 pin cable? Why are you master and slaving it 
don't you have two IDE ports on the mother board. Are you running any 
other drives on IDE besides the hard drive and DVD. How old is this thing?
Good Lock and God Bless Johnny

On 01/17/2012 07:19 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 01/17/2012 06:45 PM, Johnny wrote:
>> Will 11.10 support a floppy? You will have to mount it if it does. If it
>> is so old it doesn't have a usb port you should probably call it dead.
>> Good Luck and God Bless Johnny3 65++
>>
>> On 01/17/2012 05:36 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
>>> On 01/17/2012 05:06 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>>> On 17 January 2012 06:50, Ric Moore<wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> It went into Dead Parrot Mode again. When I first fired up, it ran
>>>>> "True
>>>>> Lies" like a champ. Then later it says it cannot decrypt it, but the
>>>>> True
>>>>> Lies directory is THERE in ~/.dvdcss !!
>>>>> Now, it won't come up at all. So much for Ubuntu TV. I swear, I'm
>>>>> going to
>>>>> become Swiss and learn how to yodel. Ric
>>>>
>>>> With the problem being so variable is it possible that you have a
>>>> hardware problem? Perhaps the drive is on the way out, or something
>>>> on the mother board.
>>>
>>> My main board in for repair is an AMD. That's all I'[ve run for years.
>>> This is my first Intel MB, and it's given me nothing but fits. Any
>>> more of this and I'll be pronounced "king" for St Vitus Day. Maybe
>>> I'll install the 3/1 inch floppy drive and flash this thing, just for
>>> ducks. The DVD player fired up "Dick Tracy and Nancy Drew" like a
>>> champ. Yeah... don't say it, although they don't make 'em like Nancy
>>> anymore. :) But it really hates Arnold and Hogwarts. If it won't play
>>> Monty Python, Ill take a hammer to it. Will 11.10 support a floppy?? 
>>> Ric
>
> Now it won't fire up Nancy Drew! I checked everything, all the 
> connectors are connected correctly. I checked the bios, no problems 
> there with regards to the drives. The harddrive is pin selected to 
> "Master", the DVD is pin selected as "slave", the 80-wire IDE 
> connector is set with the DVD in the middle and the harddrive to the end.
>
> The DVD sees a data disk, aoutomounts it with no prob. I just checked.
> I made sure that /dev/dvd /dev/cdrom and /dev/sr0 are chowned 
> root:cdrom. I am part of that group. Could there be another point that 
> the DVD could be set to other than /dev/sr0 ? The problem must be in 
> there somewhere. Ric
>
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