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    How to get a Blu-Ray drive to work

    I've got an internal Blu Ray drive installed in my machine, but if I look at the KInfoCenter it just says it's an Optical Drive and the SCSI page indicates that the type for the drive is a CD-ROM. If I stick a Blu Ray disk in the drive the Device Notifier and K3b don't recognize the media as anything usable. So, my supposition is that when I installed Natty, it configured the Blu Ray drive as a CD writer instead.

    Can anyone tell me how I might reconfigure the system to recognize the drive for what it is? I've looked in /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab, but don't see any mention of the optical drives in either of those files. Where does one go to configure the drive types and what should I provide as inputs to configure it as a Blu Ray device?

    Thanks
    Bill Lugg

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    Re: How to get a Blu-Ray drive to work

    Might be useful: EASY BLU-RAY MOVIE PLAYBACK IN LINUX
    Windows no longer obstructs my view.
    Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
    "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes

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      Re: How to get a Blu-Ray drive to work

      OK, so I finally got around to going through the process in the linked article and when it starts it shows that the Blu Ray drive is a standard DVD RW. If I insert a BD-R disk, the app claims no disk is inserted.

      So, it appears that Kubuntu is not detecting that the device is actually a Blu Ray burner. How can I configure Linux to correctly recognize what the drive is?

      Thanks.
      Bill Lugg

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