[SOLVED] Optical drive no longer detected

Edit:This is so stupid. I had it disabled in BIOS. I don't remember doing it. I apologize for the noise.
I don't know when this happened, but fairly recently. Maybe with linux-3.2 or kmod.
My optical drive is no longer detected. This is what I found in my old logs:
kernel.log.3:Dec 18 22:39:31 localhost kernel: [ 5.277389] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
kernel.log.3:Dec 18 22:39:31 localhost kernel: [ 5.277738] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
I no longe have any mention of sr0 anywhere and I can't eject the drive. It's completely dead while Arch is booted. It works fine when I'm in the BIOS configuration menu.
Am I missing a module or something like that?
Last edited by Lars Stokholm (2012-01-11 17:05:13)

i agree. in my case only detect CDemu drive
EDIT: restart my machine. now detect all optical drives
Last edited by sl1pkn07 (2012-01-11 03:19:57)

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