Ubuntu – Discs in DVD Drive not being read

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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.

http://pastebin.com/GqqSCTPw

*-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:

sudo mkdir -v /media/cdrom0 ; sudo mkdir -v /media/cdrom1

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:

 echo "# cdrom 0" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab  
 echo "/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom/  auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab  
 echo "# cdrom 1" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab 
 echo "/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom/ auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab

Then you will want to remount the file systems listed in fstab with this command:

sudo mount -a

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.

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