Thread: DVD Drive Stopped Working, Ubuntu Doesn't Recognise

hi guys,

can point me in right direction
i've spent few hours trawling google , forums yesterday , today, maybe missed something.

have :

• ubuntu 10.04 lts
• dell inspiron 530 / quad core / 6gb ram
• all updates of yesterday.

(my dvd drive working until removed use in other pc. think might have done stupid unplug dvd drive while pc still powered up.

maybe that's issue.)

since then, ubuntu doesn't recognise it.

• i've tried removing drive, rebooting, shutting down, installing drive repeatedly.
• on inserting disk, drive spins briefly, nothing shows in places on left hand side.
• i've tried usermount program suggested in thread, gives me 'proc' device listed, , i'm able use close button, other 2 greyed out.
• i've tried sudo mount /media/cdrom (and cdrom0, cdrom1) no change

there command try?

still bit new ubuntu, please feel free explain if addressing 2 year old child !

i've included fstab & mtab below, in case of help.

in advance,
darren

mtab:

code:

/dev/sda1 / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro,user_xattr 0 0 proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 none /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 none /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0 none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw 0 0 none /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0 none /dev devtmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0 none /var/run tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0 none /var/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 none /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0 binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/darren/.gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon rw,nosuid,nodev,user=darren 0 0

my fstab:

code:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # use 'blkid -o value -s uuid' print universally unique identifier # device; may used uuid= more robust way name # devices works if disks added , removed. see fstab(5). # # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass> proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0 # / on /dev/sda1 during installation uuid=b5f233da-94d0-4d6b-8eb8-b89fb62e6dfc /               ext4    errors=remount-ro,user_xattr 0       1 # swap on /dev/sda5 during installation uuid=9eae7513-c3df-4480-917d-a4ea248c83cf none            swap    sw              0       0

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