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    DVD drive not reading discs

    Hi all.
    I just noticed that my DVD drive is not reading ANY of my CD/DVDs anymore. Whenever a disc is inserted, it tries to read it, it spins for a little while, and that's it. I can eject it both through the unit's button and through console.
    If I type
    Code:
    sudo lshw -class disk
    , the result is:
    Code:
    *-disk                    
          description: SCSI Disk
          product: Card  Reader
          vendor: Multiple
          physical id: 0.0.0
          bus info: scsi@6:0.0.0
          logical name: /dev/sdb
          version: 1.00
          capabilities: removable
          configuration: logicalsectorsize=512 sectorsize=512
        *-medium
             physical id: 0
             logical name: /dev/sdb
     *-disk
          description: ATA Disk
          product: Hitachi HCS5C101
          vendor: Hitachi
          physical id: 0.0.0
          bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
          logical name: /dev/sda
          version: A3EA
          serial: JC0950HX0WA54H
          size: 931GiB (1TB)
          capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
          configuration: ansiversion=5 logicalsectorsize=512 sectorsize=512 signature=9532ab25
     *-cdrom
          description: DVD-RAM writer
          product: CDDVDW SH-S223C
          vendor: TSSTcorp
          physical id: 0.0.0
          bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
          logical name: /dev/cdrom
          logical name: /dev/cdrw
          logical name: /dev/dvd
          logical name: /dev/dvdrw
          logical name: /dev/sr0
          version: me01
          capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
          configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
    It says status=nodisc although I had a data DVD inserted at the moment. I've tried different discs with the same result.
    Thanks in advance for your help.

    #2
    You might try cleaning the drive as well as checking the cables if it is a PC, or removing and reinserting the drive if it a removable drive.

    How old is the drive? They do die after a while.

    Sent from my LG-H931 using Tapatalk

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