Lost CD Rom Drive, installed fine and now it's gone?

Asked by matt-d3

I did a new install of Dapper on my Toshiba laptop. After the install the cd/Dvd drive was working fine, played an audio cd, ripped the music to my hard drive,... The OS indicated there were 218 updates which I installed. I shut down and came back to my computer and now the applications are indicating no cd rom found. I've tried audio and data cds, nothing mounts.

Thanks for your help
Matt

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Áron Sisak (asisak) said :
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Please run "dmesg |grep DVD> dmesg.txt" in a terminal, and paste the result here. Also paste your /etc/fstab file here.

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Best matt-d3 (matt-d3) said :
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Perhaps this makes some sense to you. I had already re-booted several times to see if this would correct the problem, no luck. I then remembered that Grub gives you the option of booting to a prior kernel. One of the updates I received was a kernel update from 2.6.15-23-386 to 2.6.15-27-386. I re-booted to the earlier kernel and the cd/dvd was recognized again. So just to confirm the problem I re-booted to the newer kernel and the cd/dvd still worked and is still working? If you would still like me to run "dmesg" and get the contents of fstab I will? I appreciate your assistance and would like any light you can shed on this. I'm new to linux and like what I see and would like to learn this OS.