On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 10:16:42PM -0800, Russell Senior wrote:
> >>>>> "John" == John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> writes:
>
> John> However, at this point the optical drive won't mount anything. I
> John> tried half a dozen different DVDs, the light on the drive flashes
> John> briefly, then stops. The mount command does not see it, nor is
> John> there anything in the GUI file manager.
>
> John> Now I'm worried that there might be a hardware failure.
>
> The other thing that is interesting is the last bit of the output from
> dmesg. Something like:
>
> dmesg | tail -n 40
>
> that will display the last 40 lines of dmesg output. The value 40 isn't
> super critical. It should show some indication of detecting the disk,
> or maybe not.
That should be run right after inserting the optical disk.
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