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[SOLVED] CD/DVD Drives Not Seen by ZORIN 9?

CLUNKER

Tue Sep 09, 2014 7:54:06 pm

Neither of my cd/dvd drives are useable nor are they seen by the ZORIN9 OS?

Yet they are working just fine when I boot into XP.

Any ideas on why?

Copy/Paste showing output of ( sudo lshw -c disk ) showing only my hard drives are seen by Zorin OS.

Is there another command I need to run specifacally for checking CD/DVD drives?

user@old-clunker:~$ sudo lshw -c disk
*-disk:0
description: ATA Disk
product: WDC WD2500JB-00R
vendor: Western Digital
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: 20.0
serial: WD-WMANK60xxxxx
size: 232GiB (250GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 sectorsize=512 signature=08bf08bf
*-disk:1
description: ATA Disk
product: Maxtor 6Y160P0
vendor: Maxtor
physical id: 0.1.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.1.0
logical name: /dev/sdb
version: YAR4
serial: Y46xxxxx
size: 149GiB (160GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 sectorsize=512 signature=92a037fb


Thanks for Any & All Comments / Replies / Answers :?:

Swarfendor437

Wed Sep 10, 2014 11:51:42 am

Hi, and welcome to Zorin! :D How did you install Zorin? USB or DVD? :D

CLUNKER

Wed Sep 10, 2014 8:32:39 pm

Swarfendor437 wrote:Hi, and welcome to Zorin! :D How did you install Zorin? USB or DVD? :D


Thanks for your reply.

Installed 32bit DVD burned at 4X that is working fine on another machine tested it on.

Both drives are still working fine when booted into Windows, but Zorin doesn't see Blank CD's / Data CD's / or DVD's

Swarfendor437

Thu Sep 11, 2014 11:55:18 am

Hi, have you completed updates after install? A good place to start would be with Wolfman's Post-Installation guide here:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2054

Dont' be put off by the fact it says 6 & 8 - most of it will apply to 9! ;)

CLUNKER

Thu Sep 11, 2014 6:35:22 pm

Thanks for your attempt to help, but I simply reformatted both drives & reinstalled both operating systems the same exact way.
Now it works OK --- Zorin must have missed a few drivers, or whatever the first time around.
And to answer your question - I did install updates after install through terminal before asking for input.

Thanks Anyways

Swarfendor437

Thu Sep 11, 2014 6:56:55 pm

Hi Glad you are sorted! Will mark as [SOLVED]! :D