It is an ASUS DRW-2014L1T. Just then, I ran nautilus as root. As soon as I did this, the CD drive spun up and showed the contents of the directory with no problem. I don't really know what this means, but I suspect it make fixing the problem easier.
Thanks for your quick response. -- CD/DVD Drive no longer reads any media after install of 9.10 beta https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441875 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs