Where is my DVD drive?

[andimint]

Hello! On my Hp 625 Notebook I cannot find the CD/DVD drive. When I insert an Audio CD everythings fine: a CD icon apperas on my desktop and in nautilus the drive is also shown. but the /etc/fstab is empty concerning dvd-drives. mount -l tells the following:

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/dev/sda2 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/sda3 on /home type ext4 (rw,commit=0)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/andi/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=andi)

sudo fdisk tells the following:

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Platte /dev/sda: 320.1 GByte, 320072933376 Byte
255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spur, 38913 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0001a275

   Gerät  boot.     Anfang        Ende     Blöcke   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1         498     3998720   82  Linux Swap / Solaris
Partition 1 endet nicht an einer Zylindergrenze.
/dev/sda2   *         498        5362    39062528   83  Linux
/dev/sda3            5362       38187   263671808   83  Linux
/dev/sda4           38187       38914     5836800    b  W95 FAT32

this my /etc/fstab :

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
/dev/sda2       /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/sda3       /home           ext4    defaults        0       2
/dev/sda1       none            swap    sw              0       0

Now I inserted a not-audio-disc (Maple 12) and nothing happens-no icon on desktop, no entry in the very left column of nautilus...what can i do?

[AlbertP]

That /etc/fstab does not mention a CD/DVD is normal in modern Linux, and fdisk ignores CD/DVD's. Are you sure that no CD/DVD icon appears in 'Computer' (the monitor-like icon) in Nautilus?

[andimint]

Yes, there is no such icon in "Computer". the /media directory is empty as well. what can i do? its strange beacuse audio cds work well. (but even in that case i couldnt find the path to the cd-drive what made it impossible for me to konfigure wine for itunes. itunes does not find the cds i insert...)

[altego]

Same problem... Except that I can access my cdrom with vlc, (cdrom is at /dev/cdrom) but can't see it mounted anywhere... strange things happening with ubuntu 11.04

using linux mint katya