Can't See Blank CDs

I recently reinstalled OS X on my computer. Now I can no longer see a blank CD when I insert it into my drive. It loads all burned CDs and everything else fine, just won't show me the blank ones so that I can burn a new one.
Any ideas?
Thanks

Sounds like your System Preferences got altered during the reinstall. Open Finder > Preferences... > General, and under "Show these items on the Desktop:", make sure "CDs, DVDs, and iPods" is checked.
If that doesn't solve it, open System Preferences > Hardware > CDs & DVDs, and for "When you insert a blank CD" and "When you insert a blank DVD", select what you want. I selected "Open other application" and browsed to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility, so when I insert a blank CD or DVD, Disk Utility starts.

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Last edited by weakhead (2010-07-23 14:20:26)

@mianka
weakhead wrote:[...] Thunar successfully mounts DVD [...]
It's supposed to be in kernel, right? Besides, it was never necessary for me to install external driver, months ago burning DVD discs with tools using cdrkit/cdrtools/dvd+rw-tools wasn't a problem.
I even though that lack of libdvdread package was causing this... but having it installed doesn't help either (as expected - it's just for DVD-Video discs).
EDIT: I've also tried dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/sr0 - doesn't work.
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Ah ok that is different than what you said before. Before you said you couldn't see the blank in either iTunes or the Finder. Now you are saying that you can see it in the Finder but if you tell the finder to use iTunes, iTunes doesn't see it then? What happens if you say to use the blank in the finder? Does it show up in the desk top?
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