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Questions tagged [optical]

Questions relevant to optical drives (CD, DVD, Bluray, etc).

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How can I share an optical drive in a way that fools the client into thinking it's a local drive?

I'm in the frankly ludicrous situation where my desktop has two optical drives and my media centre has none (nor space for one). Before I consider something as extreme as buying an external optical drive, I would like to see if there's a way of…
Oli
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How do I disable laptop optical drive eject button and assign eject to a keyboard shortcut?

Note: Answer now updated to function under 19.04 I'm on 14.04 and accidentally open my cd/dvd/bluray drive about 20 times a day. I've looked at a few questions here which provided no working solution. Both this question and this question appear to…
Insperatus
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Load average is high after adding second drive

My laptop was working fine and its load average was between 0.2 - 0.5 (and around 0.02 while doing nothing) until I decide to upgrade it with an SSD. First I replaced my HDD with SSD, moving HDD into a HDD Caddy, removing the optical drive and…
Ravexina
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Optical drive keeps ejecting automatically

I installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS a few days ago and after 2 days, my drive started ejecting itself after some time, without my issuing any command. It's not a hardware problem because I ran the BIOS for like half an hour. The drive works fine on Windows…
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Permanently disable CD drive

Possible Duplicate: disable the cdrom in Ubuntu 11.10 OS I have no use for a CD drive, ever. Yet it exists, consumes power, opens inadvertently when in its case or in my bed and makes noise whenever computer sleeps, wakes, shuts down or boots. I…
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Optical S/PDIF activate rear output

I'm trying to use the optical audio output of my motherboard to send the sound to my AV Receiver. I only see the front channels received by my AV. Indeed rear channels don't seem to be activated. How can I activate the rear channels ?
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How to check if DVD-R is closed?

When I burn a DVD with Brasero, it asks me whether I want to close the DVD after burn or leave it open to add files later. How do I check whether a DVD is read-only or it's still writable? I am talking of course of DVD-R, not DVD-RW disks. I am…
David
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Boot from USB, but run on auxiliary hard drive

I have a Dell Vostro 1700 that a friend gave me because it died. On investigation I found that it no longer recognized the internal hard drives, but booted fine from an Ubuntu CD or from Ubuntu on a USB flash drive. It currently runs from the USB,…
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Why am I unable to mount my cd/dvd drives?

Sorry to ask this question which has been asked by dozens of other people, but it seems that though the symptoms may be the same, most people have different issues. I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my Acer Aspire5100-5023 computer which has its own…
Nil
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Set MakeMKV installed with snap to see optical drive

Snap seemed to me the easiest way to install MakeMKV. I ended up with a program that starts but doesn't react to the presence of a DVD. Trying to navigate manually to the drive, the /media folder is not seen. I have heard about snap programs not…
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DVD drive can not be accessed, but is recognised and seen by programs

I have a very weird issue with one of my optical drives at the moment. Currently, I have an old Plextor PX-760A IDE-drive and a Pioneer BDR-206 installed by SATA. The Pioneer drives works without any problems so far. The Plextor drive, however, is…
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md5 for iso checks, but burn always fails

---------------------update------------------------- the disc shows as an excellent disc: thufir@doge:~$ thufir@doge:~$ cdck -t -v Track list (1-1): 1: 00:02:00 (sec: 000000) data 170: 82:48:60 (sec: 372510) data (leadout) Disc status: data…
Thufir
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Optical drive not recognized after 14.04 update

Just installed updates in 14.04. Prior to updates the CD\DVD drive was recognized by both admin and standard user accounts. After updates can only access in admin. Standard user message is don't have required permissions. How do I set permissions…
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why doesn't my optical drive read dvds nor bds anymore? only cds

i have installed ubuntu through a CD. now my optical drive doesn't real DVDs nor BDs anymore. i'm new to ubuntu. don't know many things. just the basics. is there a way to either configure it? should i re-install the drivers? if so, where do i find…
fausto
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MacBook 4,1 disc drive doesn't load with Kubuntu

not sure I'm in the right place, but I installed Kubuntu on my early 2008 MacBook (4,1) and on inserting CD in the built-in drive it is not drawn in. I am dual-booting and the drive works fine with MacOS Snow Leopard I also have installed. Many…
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