Re-enable optical drive on Dell laptop
by TorC from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5JWJS)
Somehow, optical drives on two different Dell laprops -- one legact BIOS, another a UEFI boot E6540 -- have been disable while online and unable to be recognized by the boot processes. More than twice in the past 18 months this has occurred.
It's almost like some entity out there does not want usage of optical drives for burning data to CDs or DVDs to continmue.
I have reinstalled the OS and got them working but need to get to the source of this irritating occurrence and make corrections to config a habit, I guess.
/etc/fstab: static file system information.
Code:#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=DF0C-911C /boot/efi vfat umask=0022,fmask=0022,dmask=0022 0 1
/boot/efi/grub /boot/grub none defaults,bind 0 0
UUID=c43550f9-b9ba-4d03-b367-0331a90354a2 none swap discard 0 from current E6540 running an ubuntu derivative with ZFS.
I am too tired to think right now and losing patience. i know I should know, but am asking help ... and ...
Suggestions, please.
It's almost like some entity out there does not want usage of optical drives for burning data to CDs or DVDs to continmue.
I have reinstalled the OS and got them working but need to get to the source of this irritating occurrence and make corrections to config a habit, I guess.
/etc/fstab: static file system information.
Code:#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=DF0C-911C /boot/efi vfat umask=0022,fmask=0022,dmask=0022 0 1
/boot/efi/grub /boot/grub none defaults,bind 0 0
UUID=c43550f9-b9ba-4d03-b367-0331a90354a2 none swap discard 0 from current E6540 running an ubuntu derivative with ZFS.
I am too tired to think right now and losing patience. i know I should know, but am asking help ... and ...
Suggestions, please.