Disc drive automatically rejects discs after being inserted.

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It sounds like the lens on your optical drive is dirty. Use a cleaning DVD or wrap a microfiber cloth around a credit card and carefully slide it in and out a few times.

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Serial Number: WD-WCAL77403899
Firmware Revision: 08.02D08
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heads 16 16
sectors/track 63 63
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LBA48 user addressable sectors: 488397168
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* Power Management feature set
* Write cache
* Look-ahead
* Host Protected Area feature set
* WRITE_BUFFER command
* READ_BUFFER command
* DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
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* SCT Long Sector Access (AC1)
* SCT LBA Segment Access (AC2)
* SCT Error Recovery Control (AC3)
* SCT Features Control (AC4)
* SCT Data Tables (AC5)
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not enabled
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not frozen
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smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital Caviar RE EIDE family
Device Model: WDC WD2500SB-01KBC0
Serial Number: WD-WCAL77403899
Firmware Version: 08.02D08
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Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
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ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
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SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
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=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
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Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
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Offline data collection
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Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
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Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
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Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
No General Purpose Logging support.
Short self-test routine
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Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 88) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x003f) SCT Status supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
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1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 236 124 021 Pre-fail Always - 708
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 098 098 040 Old_age Always - 2680
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 081 081 000 Old_age Always - 14289
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 098 098 000 Old_age Always - 2365
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 123 092 000 Old_age Always - 27
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
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No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
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Serial Number: WD-WCAM9N730552
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Standards:
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PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
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