11 May
2010
11 May
'10
6:02 a.m.
Greetings,
I rarely post here, because I am not in your league, technically speaking.
But I have not been able to read or write optical media since I upgraded
from Ubuntu Studio 8.04 to 9.10 some months ago. I have posted all over the
place, and filed a bug report in Launchpad (#544772), shown people all kinds
of terminal reports, loaded some kernel modules--sorry I can't document it
here, it's spread all over the place. In the end, still no drive.
Last weekend I did a fresh install of 10.04, just to see if anything
changed. The only difference is there is no longer even a menu item for CD
or DVD drives (though there is one for floppy drives[!]). I installed from
a DVD, and at first boot, the drive it had just installed from, no longer
existed as far as the system could tell. I can boot live CDs, and if I boot
generic Ubuntu from a flash drive, I can use the CD/DVD drive.
Can this be fixed, or is this just obsolete hardware? Is there a better
distro for this drive? What information do you folks need to help me figure
this out? I don't like having a multimedia production machine that can't
even play a CD, much less save projects to one.
Thanks,
Paul in Seattle