I'm not seeing your CD drive in your dmesg output... try this: # dmesg |grep cd You should see something similar to what I have on my laptop: hdc: DW-28E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 1658kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20