Re: Blu-ray drive unable to detect media
On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 03:46:04 -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
> I am working with an older computer that has a blu-ray writer attached
> through a PCI SATA card for making backups.
>
> What's happening is that every now and then it fails to mount the
> blu-ray disc. Once this happens, it gets stuck into that mode until I
> power down the computer, wait a few seconds then restart it. Simply
> rebooting won't fix it, but the power cycling does.
>
> Until it's power cycled, it fails to detect the media in the drive.
The machine can be experiencing a hardware issue, rather complex to debug
from remote.
> I'm looking for a better way of handling this error since the machine is
> at a remote location and I don't have remote power-on capability. Is
> there some software command that can reset disk controller (the blu-ray
> writer is the only thing connected to it)?
Given the hotplug nature of SATA, what you could try is rescanning for
the optical unit. I never did it before but there has to be "how-to" in
some place (searching...). Ah, look this:
Resetting SATA devices under Linux
http://www.skytale.net/blog/archives/24-Resetting-SATA-devices-under-Linux.html
But I wouldn't do it unless there is someone in the other location (at
least for the first tryout) just in the event something fails.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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