Does anyone have an experience with Ubuntu that is no longer reading discs in the DVD drive?
This is my first time Ubuntu does not see the disc 😐 The disc is fine and works on my other Ubuntu computers.
The drive is there and powered. I can even type in eject
in a terminal and the drive will open. Using the command: sudo lshw -C disk
I am able to see info about my drive too. Actually BOTH of my internal DVD drives cannot read discs anymore. If the output is not readable below, here is the info in pastebin.
*-cdrom:0
description: DVD writer
product: DVD_RW ND-3500AG
vendor: _NEC
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom1
logical name: /dev/cdrw1
logical name: /dev/dvd1
logical name: /dev/dvdrw1
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: 2.1B
serial: [_NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG2.1B06022300BT-LIGGY
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
*-cdrom:1
description: DVD-RAM writer
product: CDDVDW SH-S222A
vendor: TSSTcorp
physical id: 0.1.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.1.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/cdrw
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/dvdrw
logical name: /dev/scd1
logical name: /dev/sr1
version: SB01
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
Best Answer
Adding a entry in /etc/fstab may solve your issue, I was having issues using programs in wine that would not recognize my cdrom. In your case start by running:
This will create the future mount points for your cdrom drives. Then run this command which will edit in the proper lines in your fstab file:
Then you will want to remount the file systems listed in fstab with this command:
Pop in a cd or dvd to see it this corrected the issue. If it did solve the issue there is some problem with automount. This is only a workaround for a bigger problem.