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Okay well im new to ubuntu(9.10) and ive had it for about a week for the first couple days its been great but now i have a cd drive error ...
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    Cd drive problem(URGENT HELP PLEASE)

    Okay well im new to ubuntu(9.10) and ive had it for about a week for the first couple days its been great but now i have a cd drive error and i dont know how to fix. Here are my details

    Here is the error that i receive:

    "Unable to mount cdrom0
    Mount: special device /dev/scd1 does not exist"

    Here are my 70-persistant-cd.rules thing:

    # CD-RW_GCE-8483B (pci-0000:00:02.5-scsi-1:0:1:0)
    SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0000:00:02.5-scsi-1:0:1:0", SYMLINK+="cdrom", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
    SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0000:00:02.5-scsi-1:0:1:0", SYMLINK+="cdrw", ENV{GENERATED}="1"

    # DVD-ROM_GDR8162B (pci-0000:00:02.5-scsi-1:0:0:0)
    SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0000:00:02.5-scsi-1:0:0:0", SYMLINK+="cdrom1", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
    SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0000:00:02.5-scsi-1:0:0:0", SYMLINK+="dvd1", ENV{GENERATED}="1"


    Please help i use this computer for my college class

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    Can you post the output of
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    sudo lshw -C disk

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    Quote Originally Posted by reed9 View Post
    Can you post the output of
    Code:
    sudo lshw -C disk

    *-disk
    description: ATA Disk
    product: HDS722580VLAT20
    physical id: 0.0.0
    bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0
    logical name: /dev/sda
    version: V32O
    serial: VNR21EC2T0WM4M
    size: 76GiB (82GB)
    capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
    configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=2fe52fe4

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