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I have read/tried just about every post I've seen on here but Ubuntu will not see my CD drive. When I run sudo lshw -C disk I get the following:

  • *-disk:0 description: SCSI Disk physical id: 0.0.0 bus info: scsi@6:0.0.0 logical name: /dev/sdb configuration: logicalsectorsize=512 sectorsize=512
  • *-disk:1 description: SCSI Disk physical id: 0.0.1 bus info: scsi@6:0.0.1 logical name: /dev/sdc configuration: logicalsectorsize=512 sectorsize=512
  • *-disk:2 description: SCSI Disk physical id: 0.0.2 bus info: scsi@6:0.0.2 logical name: /dev/sdd configuration: logicalsectorsize=512 sectorsize=512
  • *-disk:3 description: SCSI Disk physical id: 0.0.3 bus info: scsi@6:0.0.3 logical name: /dev/sde configuration: logicalsectorsize=512 sectorsize=512
  • *-disk description: ATA Disk product: WDC WD5000AAKX-6 vendor: Western Digital physical id: 0.0.0 bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0 logical name: /dev/sda version: 1H18 serial: WD-WCC2EJJ14651 size: 465GiB (500GB) capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos configuration: ansiversion=5 logicalsectorsize=512 sectorsize=512 signature=4f4849fc

Any assistance would be appreciated.

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  • Which Ubuntu release? Is the drive older? Commented Jan 27, 2016 at 5:52
  • By mount I mean if u put a disc in it and use mount does our show up? Commented Jan 27, 2016 at 5:57
  • The release is in the title. I went and bought a new computer just to install Ubuntu on so I don't think the drive is that old. and when I use 'mount' I get an error that says /cdrom don't exist. Commented Jan 28, 2016 at 4:43
  • Just for fun, what's output of fdisk -l? I have a hard time reading the lshw output. Commented Jan 28, 2016 at 4:47
  • Could it be a slave master issue? I see a lot of scsi drives. Commented Jan 28, 2016 at 4:49

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I found a solution in askubuntu.com:

sudo mkdir /media/cdrom

And add this line to /etc/fstab:

/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

I'm not quite satisfied with this solution because, in previous versions of Ubuntu, the devices were mounted per user in "/etc/media/".

Any ideas?

I have three computers with Ubuntu 15.10, one with Ubuntu and two with Ubuntu Gnome. All of them have the same problem, so I think this has to be a common issue with this version. It's strange that there is no better solution yet.

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  • It's an answer, but in my opinion it's not the best answer. It's more like a workaround. Commented Mar 17, 2016 at 12:48

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