Unable to see DVD drive on Ubuntu 12.10

Question

I know that the drive is connected properly since I have Ubuntu installed along side Windows 7 and the drive works within Windows. I do not see it in the media folder as specified in other answers. When executing the following script within the terminal here are my finds. Please advise.

jamie@OptiPlex-790:~$ sudo lshw -C disk
[sudo] password for jamie: 
  *-disk                  
       description: ATA Disk
       product: SAMSUNG SSD PM83
       physical id: 0.0.0
       bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
       logical name: /dev/sda
       version: CXM0
       serial: S0TYNZABC63105
       size: 119GiB (128GB)
       capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
       configuration: ansiversion=5 sectorsize=512 signature=b2e138ff
  *-cdrom
       description: DVD-RAM writer
       product: DVD+-RW GH70N
       vendor: HL-DT-ST
       physical id: 0.0.0
       bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
       logical name: /dev/cdrom
       logical name: /dev/cdrw
       logical name: /dev/dvd
       logical name: /dev/dvdrw
       logical name: /dev/sr0
       version: A101
       capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
       configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
jamie@OptiPlex-790:~$ 

Solution

The output provided by you shows that the drivers of the dvd writer are installed and kernel is recognizing the hardware. In ubuntu 12.10, it won't show you the drive if there is no media in it. When you insert any dvd or cd in it, it will automatically mount it in the /media and show you the content. You can check also check where it is mounted by following command:

mount

Comments

[Sergey]

Can you see the drive in the left-hand column of your file manager? Clicking on it there will mount the drive and it will appear as a sub-directory of /media directory

[Regs]

Yes, my apologies as the last time I tried putting a DVD in to see if it would pop up it wouldn't, but after trying again it did. Thanks for your help.