On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 15:30:37 -0800 Neal <[email protected]> dijo: >On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 2:37 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> >wrote: > >> First thing this morning I decided to reboot (which I hate doing). >> Afterward the drive worked perfectly, but only for one movie. When it >> was over I unmounted and ejected the disk, then inserted a different >> movie disk. Now it's back like it was before - constant error >> messages like the ones I quoted above.
>Fanciful Friday inquiry: Can you put the original disk back in and >play it? Nope. All media will mount, but any attempt to read them results in massive errors. There is more background to this. The laptop is a System76 Bonobo Extreme (17") that is now about two years old. At the time System76 refused to sell any laptops with Blu-ray drives because (as it was explained to me) they didn't want complaints from customers because Blu-ray movies wouldn't play in Linux. However, most System76 laptops are actually Clevo laptops, which System 76 buys from Sager, Clevo's only US distributor. So I ordered the laptop from System76 without any optical drive at all, and simultaneously ordered a Blu-ray r/w drive from Sager. I mounted the drive in the laptop and it has worked fine until now. So just now I called Sager to see if I could order a replacement drive, and they told me they no longer have any in stock because all their current laptops are sold without any optical drives at all. Google came up with a couple places to buy one, including one for $30 or so from Amazon, but the Amazon drive is a Panasonic BD-MLT UJ240AF, where mine is a Matshita (part of Panasoic) BD-MLT UJ260AF. Google has not been forthcoming with information as to whether the 240 is physically the same as the 260. If it would work I'd order the UJ240AF just because it's cheap enough. I wish I could figure how to pull the power to the drive from the command line, and then turn it back on. All I know is that 'umount /dev/sr0' is not the way to do it. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
