cdrom will not mount

[Douglas Pollard]

Wade Smart wrote:
> I put a cd in the drive and no icon comes up.
> I went to Places > Computer clicked on cdrom and it says cdrom not 
> mounted. So I click mount and the it says no media in drive.
>
> This drive was working - not that it couldnt just break - but is there 
> something I could check before sending it back?
>
> wade
>   
I have the same problem with DVD drive in Ubuntu won't mount . I know it 
works, as I can put in a live DVD and boot to it.  My cd drive won't 
mount in Ubuntu but I can boot from it??
                                                                         
                                                            Doug