CDROM

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This article describes the setup of an internal optical drive like CD, DVD, and Blu-Ray drives.

Installation

Hardware detection

To choose the right driver, first detect the used storage controller. lspci can be used for this task:

root #lspci | grep --color -E "IDE|SATA"

Kernel

Activate the following kernel options:

KERNEL Kernel options for optical storage media

Device Drivers --->
   <*> Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers  --->
      [*] ATA ACPI Support
  
      # If the drive is connected to a SATA Port Multiplier:
      [*] SATA Port Multiplier support
  
      # Select the driver for the SATA controller, e.g.:
      <*> AHCI SATA support (ahci)
  
      # If the drive is connected to an IDE controller:
      [*] ATA SFF support
      [*] ATA BMDMA support
  
      # Select the driver for the IDE controller, e.g.:
        <*> Intel ESB, ICH, PIIX3, PIIX4 PATA/SATA support (ata_piix)
  
   SCSI device support  ---> 
      <*> SCSI device support
      <*> SCSI CDROM support
      <*> SCSI generic support
  
File systems  --->
   CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems  --->
      <M> ISO 9660 CDROM file system support
      [*] Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions
      [*] Transparent decompression extension
      <M> UDF file system support

Usage

Filesystems can be mounted in several ways:

mount - Command for mounting file systems
fstab - Automatic mount at boot time.
removable media - Mount on demand.
AutoFS - Automatic mount on demand.

Troubleshooting

If the optical drive is constantly checking for a new disk causing it to make unnecessary noise, consider turning SATA "Hot Plug" on for the optical drive in BIOS.

See the Libata error messages article on the Libata wiki.

External resources

libata wiki