Mint 14 with MATE: DVD not mounted

[Paul King]

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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