When I insert a cd/dvd nothing shows up in /media/cdrom. I have tried multiple cds and dvds but nothings shows up. I'm having no problems with usb and I'm running 2008.1 32 bit version if this have any relevance. Help would be appreciated

Thanks beforehand


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Can you open a console and then type the following:



so we can see if anything has mounted automatically, as it normally should to if the cd-rom is recognised. Also, try:



so we can see if the device has been recognised by the system.

/dev/sda5 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/sda7 on /home type ext3 (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/windows type fuseblk (rw,allow_other,blksize=4096)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)

is what i got from mount. dmesg | grep /dev didn't result in anything.

Can you try:



this is the results mine gives:



you can see from the very first line that it shows "hda" at the beginning. Therefore, for me, my device would be /dev/hda for my CD-ROM on my system. Let's check yours, so we can then have a go at mounting a CD manually to see if we can browse later.

Result from dmesg | grep -i cd

ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: debug port 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: irq 18, io mem 0xf9fffc00
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 19, io mem 0xf9fff800
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: irq 16, io base 0x0000b800
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: irq 20, io base 0x0000b880
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.2: irq 18, io base 0x0000bc00
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 6
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 19, io base 0x0000b080
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 7
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 21, io base 0x0000b400
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 8
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 18, io base 0x0000b480
usb 2-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
sda: sda1 sda2 <<6>usb 3-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 5-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
hda: ASUS DRW-1814BL, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hda: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20

However after I restarted the computer the dvd icon shows up and gives me the option to mount and I can access the content. However I can't modify the content and when I compare properties with my usb it says that root is the owner for /media/hda/ while under /media/kingston it's cevion. I gave mesg | grep /dev a second try and I got something this time around
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=6c25e8f8-517f-11dd-9ee3-a3ba5c9c2f1f resume=/dev/sda6 splash=silent vga=788
Adding 4088500k swap on /dev/sda6. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:4088500k

OK, so also your computer is /dev/hda for your CD-ROM drive as well.

You can't modify content on a DVD/CD unless you are using a burning application like K3B.

I meant in a burning application but I jumped the gun on that one as I thought it couldn't see any of the content as nothing showed up. I then realised I was actually searching for k3b project In conclusion:

If you want to modify the contents of a CD-ROM, save it to your HD as ISO, and then use ISOMaster to edit its contents.
Any CD-ROM or DVD is read-only filesystem, and K3B isn't of any use to alter it.