From: noaddress@nowhere.net   
      
   	Thanks everybody for your suggestions. Two 14.2 systems are   
   definitely affected, and I don't know why. The DVD device is correctly   
   detected in both. However, when I insert a DVD neither system is able to   
   detect it: when I try to mount it, in both cases I get a diagnostic to   
   the effect that no media is found.   
      
   	Since, contrary to what I thought, other 14.2 systems do not have   
   any problems with the DVDs I was trying to read, I am guessing that   
   something must be borked in the DVD units in those two systems.   
      
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