CD/DVD ROM not working/recognized, please help!

[Aluvian]

I'm new to ubuntu having just recently installed it a couple of days ago.
The thing is, I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 on a HP Pavilion DV6500 laptop, everything is working fine except that my cd-rom/dvd-rom is not working or not recognised. I'm clueless as to what the cause is and I've already tried searching around for possible solutions with no success. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Aluvian]

BTW, doing:

sudo cat /etc/fstab

gets me:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=657d5aaf-1ae5-4017-acde-fc235b76be69 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda6
UUID=a7f51d02-2c95-416e-9348-47c8abe6fe46 /home ext3 relatime 0 2
# /dev/sda5
UUID=e15986ba-77b5-4b02-9503-3c99c6a2b75e none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

[Brad_au]

I had a similar problem where udev linked my drive to /dev/dvd2 rather than /dev/dvd. Once corrected everything worked perfectly.

What is the output of lshw?