Cannot view, use, or open CDs or DVDs in Ubuntu 12.04
- by user67592
I am fairly new to Ubuntu 12.04 and I have encountered a rather irritating problem. Whenever I insert a CD or DVD (whether it have data, music, movies, or nothing at all), nothing pops up saying "you have inserted a CD", "play with Rhythmbox?" etc. It doesn't show the CD in the launcher/dock or anything of the sort.
This is especially peculiar because not only do I have a standard IDE built-in optical drive, but I have an external USB optical drive. Neither work.
In addition, whenever I go to "Computer///" and I click (double click, right click, or even left click) on "CD/DVD Drive" nothing happens, when I right click and select "Open" nothing happens either [for either of the two drives (both are listed in Computer///)]
And if I insert a blank disk and go to a disk burning program such as Brasero, and try to burn to the drive it detects no CDs or DVDs of any kind.
I'm rather stumped and can't seem to find a question similar to this. :(
Thanks for all your help in advance!! :)
~Preston
Output of sudo lshw
*-cdrom
description: DVD-RAM writer
product: CD/DVDW TS-H652M
vendor: TSSTcorp
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@5:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/cdrw
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/dvdrw
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: 0414
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
*-cdrom
description: DVD reader
product: DVD Writer 300n
vendor: HP
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@4:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom2
logical name: /dev/cdrw2
logical name: /dev/dvd2
logical name: /dev/sr1
version: 1.25
serial: [
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd
configuration: status=nodisc
