CD drive missing

[nerdtron]

I haven't notice this until today. I successfully installed Karmic in a dual boot setup but I didn't use a LiveCD. I used a bootable USB flash drive. It has been more than a week that I'm using Karmic. I decided to install Virtualbox and pop-in a Windows XP CD. Here's the problem, when I go to Places>Computer I can't see any CD drive. Everytme I try to pop-in any CD, Karmic doesn't seem to notice it....My CD drive is a SATA LG Lightscribe DVD. Any help?

[taurus]

Do you have an entry in /etc/fstab for your CD/DVD drive?

Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

cat /etc/fstab

[nerdtron]

Weird! I can see a CD Drive Icon when I press the eject button of my DVD drive but it disappears the moment the Drive closes. Here is the result of the code

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sdb1 :
UUID=489b3508-a952-4633-939b-71a32123239d / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sdb5 :
UUID=6ef18355-b691-40d0-a1af-a76a5318d91a none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/All\040Stuffs ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_PH.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/Win7 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_PH.UTF-8 0 0
neth@neth-desktop:~$

[taurus]

I have this entry in /etc/fstab for my CD/DVD drive.



/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

[nerdtron]

Aw...So Karmic says I have no CD Drive?

[presence1960]

Did you check in your BIOS to see that the SATA optical drive is recognized?

I have no entry in my fstab but have no problem mounting CDs/DVDs. I can read and write both. Here is my fstab:


# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sdb6 during installation
UUID=e0b415e6-168b-49e7-b62b-0fc42c83a6d7 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sdb5 during installation
UUID=63538de2-1cc9-4451-ab42-5f8712695c89 none swap sw 0 0

[nerdtron]

Yes I'm sure the BIOS detects it. In windows 7, I have no problems with it read/write. But in Karmic I can't even mount CDs...
I want to install windows XP in virtualbox so I need the CD drive...any more ideas???

[presence1960]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1347810&highlight=can%27t+detect+SATA+CD

See last post. Did you try switching your CD/DVD drive to a different SATA controller?

[nerdtron]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1347810&highlight=can%27t+detect+SATA+CD

See last post. Did you try switching your CD/DVD drive to a different SATA controller?

Yes! Thanks!:popcorn:

[presence1960]

Yes! Thanks!:popcorn:

Glad you got it working! Enjoy.