IDE ROM drive not accessible

[tristanlee85]

I just installed Fedora 12 and after booting up to Gnome, I put in my install DVD and it says no media is detected. When I view the hardware on the system, it lists my DVD drive. I had the same problem in Fedora 9. I assumed it was a bug in the system and always used my laptop to download and burn media (Fedora 11). I can't burn to empty media or read data from a readable disc.

Ideas?

[scathefire]

what happens when you try to mount the media from the terminal:

mkdir /home/dvd
mount /dev/dvdrw /home/dvd

your system may recognize it as /dev/dvdrom or something like that.

[tristanlee85]

[root@localhost media]# mount /dev/dvdrw /media/dvd/
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
[root@localhost media]# mount /dev/sr0 /media/dvd/
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
[root@localhost media]# mount /dev/dvd /media/dvd/
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
[root@localhost media]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /media/dvd/
mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0
[root@localhost media]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/dvd /media/dvd/
mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0