Clarifying the above. In my case it seems that my /dev/dvd is not mapped (logical name) to cdrom. I suspect that is why this is happening. If this is the problem, how do I fix it? As well, is this a hardware problem?
sudo lshw -c disk
*-cdrom description: DVD-RAM writer product: CD/DVDW TS-H652D vendor: TSSTcorp physical id: 0.0.0 bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0 logical name: /dev/cdrom logical name: /dev/sr0 logical name: /media/myusername/DVDVIDEO version: GA01 capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram configuration: ansiversion=5 mount.fstype=udf mount.options=ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=77,iocharset=utf8 state=mounted status=ready *-medium physical id: 0 logical name: /dev/cdrom logical name: /media/pch/DVDVIDEO configuration: mount.fstype=udf mount.options=ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=77,iocharset=utf8 state=mounted
Clarifying the above. In my case it seems that my /dev/dvd is not mapped (logical name) to cdrom. I suspect that is why this is happening. If this is the problem, how do I fix it? As well, is this a hardware problem?
sudo lshw -c disk
*-cdrom myusername/ DVDVIDEO
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
configuration: ansiversion=5 mount.fstype=udf mount.options= ro,nosuid, nodev,relatime, uid=1000, gid=1000, umask=77, iocharset= utf8 state=mounted status=ready
configuratio n: mount.fstype=udf mount.options= ro,nosuid, nodev,relatime, uid=1000, gid=1000, umask=77, iocharset= utf8 state=mounted
description: DVD-RAM writer
product: CD/DVDW TS-H652D
vendor: TSSTcorp
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/sr0
logical name: /media/
version: GA01
*-medium
physical id: 0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /media/pch/DVDVIDEO