DVD Drive Not Working

[uheaven]

Hey there, i'm a kinda new ubuntu user. my dvd writer was working alright 2 days back but its not working now.. i tried many dvds and cds and it wont even read them. It says Unable to mount location. No media in the drive.

Its a Sony DVD CD-RW/DVD +- RW??


Wat cud be the problem it WAS working alright!!

[uheaven]

Hang On, I've just noticed Blank CD-Rs and DVD-Rs ARE working!!... but what about the cds which i NEED

[uheaven]

Any Help, please? Its Urgent!

[masonfoley]

Have you done a search on "DVD not working" or "DVD doesn't play" or other similar variants. Many suggestions abound that I'm guessing people don't want to type out again. Nothing against you, just the way it is I would guess.

I'm in your boat in that I have a DVD problem, unfortunately, I haven't found a solution yet but I did manage to find many threads (and even start one of my own since my situation appeared to be different than others.) It would appear I was correct as nothing I have tried has work thus far.

But here are some threads that I would suggest looking into:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=807834
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=806861
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=568929

Also search for a specific poster by the name of MC4MAN. His solutions have worked for various people.
http://ubuntuforums.org/search.php?searchid=41950038

Google search reveals:
http://tobias.rautenkranz.ch/libdvdread_ifo.html

etc. etc.

I would also suggest adding more information to your post indicating what you've tried, log messages, error messages, etc. That may help you get a response to your situation specifically.

[uheaven]

thx, masonfoley!

But my problem, too is kinda different - I cant seem to read ANY DVD OR CD except CD-Rs and DVD-Rs, not just movie DVDS!!

I think it happened when i changed the partitions a lil bit - moved swap to the left(or right) and resized the 24 GB / to 96 GB. Cud this have been the problem? And can i fix it

[crazyidry]

I know that this topic is probably dead but I have the same problem. I have Ubuntu 11.04 and my DVD drive is not recognized by the system. It must be a problem with the drivers because I had also problems installing this version. In fact I could not install directly this version but upgrade from 10.04 LTS.

Thanks

[Husain_17]

I have the same problem. Since I upgraded to 11.04, the DVDs are undetected.

Any solution to this issue??
I already googled it and found nothing

[Vertumnus]

Try changing your SATA mode from IDE to AHCI or vice versa in the bios. More information can be found here.

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+question/166231

Hope that Helps,

~ V

[Indigo340]

I found a neat solution to this problem after a couple of years without CD/DVD being recognised, I did another search and this one worked for me,

Go to Synaptic Package Manager, type in cdde, mark it for installation, and click 'apply' then when you put in a 'branded' disc, it is recognised !

Good luck !