Mint 14 with MATE: DVD not mounted

[ted leslie]

googling your issue seems to bring up others having same. may be a bug they
are still working on?
May be time to change your disto to the much better linux mint DE version
(that's what i use).     ;)
-tl


On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Paul King <sciguy-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> By the way, I have just noticed that there are actually 3 DVD icons now on
> my desktop
> for the same blank disk. Things just get stranger and stranger.
>
> The problem persists that I still have a blank DVD that I can't seem to
> record on.
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> On 13-03-31 06:13 PM, Paul King wrote:
>
>> On 13-03-31 04:46 PM, ted leslie wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> what does dmesg say during this. . and also at boot up?
>>> may want to turn off auto mount also while examining the issue.
>>> USB of sata/ide dvd?
>>> .tl
>>>
>>>
>>>  dmesg does not give any messages at all related to this; but an icon
>> appears on my desktop. The icon is useless, since Brasero won't record on
>> the device anyway (tried that). There are also no obvious kernel errors at
>> boot-up, tied to either the DVD-RW device or the Blu-Ray-R/DVD-RW device
>> (although it seems to be looking for a floppy drive that doesn't exist -
>> fd0). All connections on this machine are SATA.
>>
>> It appears that just because the device icon is on my desktop, it doesn't
>> mean necessarily that it is actually mounted -- sda, sdb, and sdc are my
>> hard drive partitions, and there are no sdd or sde devices which would give
>> evidence that the DVD is detected.
>>
>> As Hugh pointed out, this is all moot, since if the DVD is blank, there
>> is no filesystem there to mount anyway, so the fact that there is no sdd or
>> sde is correct behaviour for a disk with no fs on it.
>>
>> Paul
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