Ringtail Doesn't Detect my Optical Drive

[mhumm2]

Here's the output of lshw

mark@mark-AMD-64:~$ sudo lshw -class disk
[sudo] password for mark: 
  *-disk                  
       description: ATA Disk
       product: Samsung SSD 840
       physical id: 0.1.0
       bus info: scsi@2:0.1.0
       logical name: /dev/sda
       version: DXT0
       serial: S19HNEAD226148R
       size: 111GiB (120GB)
       capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
       configuration: ansiversion=5 sectorsize=512 signature=0005d800
  *-disk
       description: ATA Disk
       product: WDC WD5000AADS-0
       vendor: Western Digital
       physical id: 0.1.0
       bus info: scsi@3:0.1.0
       logical name: /dev/sdb
       version: 01.0
       serial: WD-WCAV93880239
       size: 465GiB (500GB)
       capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
       configuration: ansiversion=5 sectorsize=512 signature=000d76a4
  *-disk:0
       description: SCSI Disk
       product: Flash HS-CF
       vendor: Generic
       physical id: 0.0.0
       bus info: scsi@4:0.0.0
       logical name: /dev/sdc
       version: 4.44
       capabilities: removable
       configuration: sectorsize=512
     *-medium
          physical id: 0
          logical name: /dev/sdc
  *-disk:1
       description: SCSI Disk
       product: Flash HS-COMBO
       vendor: Generic
       physical id: 0.0.1
       bus info: scsi@4:0.0.1
       logical name: /dev/sdd
       version: 4.44
       capabilities: removable
       configuration: sectorsize=512
     *-medium
          physical id: 0
          logical name: /dev/sdd

I have a SATA DVD/CD burner that works well under 12.04. Please advise.

I just noticed that code tagging isn't working. Did I use the "code" markup incorrectly?

[mhumm2]

This thread is solved with two fixes: 1. Remove optical drive lines from your fstab, 13.04 doesn't need any to auto-mount and use an optical drive. 2. Check your BIOS and if you have the option of a Plug-and-Play OS, select it for Ringtail. Those two changes solves this problem. I hope this helps others with similair problems.