it happened again! i rebooted, and the drive came back. then listening to the mp3's through amarok caused the following dmesg | tail:
$ dmesg | tail [ 2107.478952] VFS: busy inodes on changed media. [ 2107.479169] cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! [ 2107.487505] VFS: busy inodes on changed media. [ 2107.588181] VFS: busy inodes on changed media. [ 2107.596281] VFS: busy inodes on changed media. [ 2107.596490] cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! [ 2107.605647] VFS: busy inodes on changed media. [ 2107.605865] cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! [ 2107.688949] VFS: busy inodes on changed media. [ 2109.141739] VFS: busy inodes on changed media. -- random unmount of dvd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/162474 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs