[mythtvnz] DVD not mounting

[James Booth]

Thanks Dylan, but no luck.

I'm running 2.6.24-20.

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:14:55 Dylan Hall wrote:
> This might be a long shot but I had a similar issue on my gentoo box
> when I upgraded to a 2.6.25 kernel.
>
> My IDE controller is unsupported so I have to tell the kernel to use the
> generic ide driver. I do this with the following kernel option in grub:
>
> all-generic-ide
>
> The 2.6.25 kernel changes the above option to:
>
> ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide
>
> When I installed the 2.6.25 kernel and rebooted everything worked
> (including booting from the cdrom which is handled by the bios) but the
> machine would fail to find the cdrom.
>
> Dylan
>
> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 14:49 +1200, James Booth wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > My Mythbuntu box has suddenly started refusing to mount my DVD player
> > (actually a Lite-On Blu-Ray/DVD combo drive). The drive works fine, as I
> > can boot from it, but on a normal boot it simply refuses to work - I get
> > the message that "Special device scd0 does not exist" if I try to
> > manually mount (and indeed, it does not). I have searched and it appears
> > to have been an issue for a lot of people using Ubuntu, but I have not
> > been able to find any definitive fix. I know this is not specifically
> > MythTV related, but there seem to be plenty of knowledgeable people on
> > this list, so I'm hoping someone can help.
> >
> > I have not applied any updates etc recently - it just suddenly started
> > misbehaving.
> >
> > Any thoughts would be appreciated. Here's my fstab, for what it's worth:
> >
> > # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> > #
> > # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> > proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> > # /dev/sda1
> > UUID=ec35d188-e0bf-437f-bfef-be6a13f09dbb /               ext3
> > relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> > # /dev/sda5
> > UUID=6cc657c7-d084-4cc1-8d42-7c3e50ffba1b none            swap    sw
> > 0       0
> > /dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0      
> > 0 /dev/mythmedia/media	/var/media	xfs	rw,noatime	0	0
> >
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