Question on DVD-drive / unclear whether this is a hal issue or not

[Dr. Ing. Dieter Jurzitza]

Dear listmembers,
my son's computer contains a lg DVD drive:

30: SCSI 00.0: 10602 CD-ROM (DVD)
  [Created at block.247]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVD_RAM_GH22LS30
  Unique ID: KD9E.c6GnszNG4b3
  Parent ID: CvwD.hW4zKajMUN8
  SysFS ID: /class/block/sr0
  SysFS BusID: 0:0:0:0
  SysFS Device Link: 
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0
  Hardware Class: cdrom
  Model: "HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH22LS30"
  Vendor: "HL-DT-ST"
  Device: "DVD-RAM GH22LS30"
  Revision: "1.00"
  Driver: "sata_nv", "sr"
  Driver Modules: "sata_nv"
  Device File: /dev/sr0 (/dev/sg0)
  Device Files: /dev/sr0, /dev/scd0, /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:05.0-
scsi-0:
  Device Number: block 11:0 (char 21:0)
  Features: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+DL, DVDRAM
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #7 (IDE interface)
  Drive Speed: 48

Now, we had had used opensuse 11.0 and did not face any issues with DVD-
drives. Since I updated to openSUSE 11.1 I permanently get messages like:

/* out of /var/log/messages */
mount: blockorientiertes Gerät /dev/sr0 ist schreibgeschützt, wird eingehängt 
im Nur-Lese-Modus
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       Manchmal liefert das Syslog wertvolle Informationen – versuchen
       Sie  dmesg | tail  oder so

UDF-fs: No anchor found
UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
UDF-fs: No anchor found
UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
UDF-fs: No anchor found
UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
UDF-fs: No anchor found
UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
UDF-fs: No anchor found
UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
Jul 22 19:42:05 oldunix smartd[4302]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 4 Currently 
unreadable (pending) sectors
Jul 22 19:42:05 oldunix smartd[4302]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage 
Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 68 to 65

There is a link 

http://forums.opensuse.org/hardware/414912-dvd-automounting-udf-
problems-2.html

describing this issue and a way how to circumvent it - but this is not at all 
satisfying. Is there any relation to hal? If not, sorry for the noise, but the 
weblink above points me towards this direction.

Do you think it would be worth opening a bug-report on Novell bugzilla?

Many thanks for your efforts,
take care



Dieter Jurzitza

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