Ubuntu 10.10 doesn't recognize my disc drive.

[tman450]

I've had Ubuntu for a few weeks and I've recently had an urge to play some Unreal Tournament 2004. The disc drive is working, so the disc will spin, but nothing will appear on my desktop.
How do I add/get Ubuntu to recognize my drive?

Also I'm new to linux.

[Ayra]

Does other discs read fine?

[tman450]

[QUOTE=Ayra;26911410]Does other discs read fine?[/QUOTE]

Nah, nothing will read.

[Ayra]

Is this issue recent, or has it always been that way? Does it work in Windows (if you're dual-booting)?

[tman450]

Back on PCLOS it worked fine. And I recall it working on windows.

[Jok3r098]

if you were to put in your ubuntu CD will your computer read it as a boot CD, if not it may be a broken disc Drive

[Boris-B]

You could try to mount the thing manually. If the disk spins and everything it might just be gnome being retarded.

[Jok3r098]

sudo mount -a for above suggestion will mount everything in Fstab, if its configured correctly

(guide for dummies - fstab is file systems table a small text file containing mount information "/etc/fstab")

[Hori]

Try this:

sudo mkdir /media/cdrom

sudo mount /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom

If still no cigar, post your /etc/fstab .

[tman450]

tim@tim-pc:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /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
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=70be6dfa-1d67-4b2c-9cb2-087855f2ff75 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=30f5202f-60ca-4e03-8207-d617295ed946 none            swap    sw            

Is that what I'm supposed to do? Cat?
Sorry for the delay, I was on vacation.

[Jok3r098]

im not all that farmilliar with fstab but for a disk drive shouldnt there be a mount for something like dev/cdrom with "auto" for filesystem?

[Ayra]

[QUOTE=Jok3r098;27052484]im not all that farmilliar with fstab but for a disk drive shouldnt there be a mount for something like dev/cdrom with "auto" for filesystem?[/QUOTE]

For most of the time it looks sort of like:

# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass>
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto auto,ro 0 0

[tman450]

So how do I edit my etc/fstab to get like that?

[Jok3r098]

terminal, Command something like this: "sudo gedit /etc/fstab" or "sudo nano /etc/fstab"

[nikomo]

nano is the most beginner-friendly.

[Jok3r098]

[QUOTE=nikomo;27097504]nano is the most beginner-friendly.[/QUOTE]

i would have said gedit because its closer to notepad in windows

[nikomo]

graphical programs are for pussies

[tman450]

Alright, when I edited my etc/fstab I reboot and it says the disk drive is not ready.
It gives me the option to skip it or mount it manually.

[Jok3r098]

manually, type in "nano /etc/fstab" and undo all the changes you made manually. gedit wont work

if you made a backup do "cp /PATH/OF/BACKUP/FSTAB /etc/ftsab"