DVD Drives not recognised. A problem that I'm having with Linux Mint 20.1 Cinnamon is that it will not recognise my internal DVD drives. I suppose most people will say 'What are DVD drives?' Mint, will, however, recognise various external DVD drives, that run in caddy usb and play or run all dvd content. I've used command prompt in Mint to check all hardware and drives and both drives show up there along with the hard drive and other hardware. The drives open properly and seem as if they should run but will not run a dvd or show up within Mint GUI. I'm a complete 'newbie'. I have other 'dows systems so I am not entirely reliant on Mint but 'toddling' along and by increment, I'm hoping to get some understanding.
Are these drives old? Newer linux kernels are dropping support for older hardware. You can install different cores to see if that will help you. Open the update manager and check the menus, there's one for the kernels. Hope this helps, François
@fblais Thanks. I'll have a look at the kernels. Is there a particular reason that they are dropping support for older hardware? 'Old' means something else these days. The DVD drives don't seem old to me but by today's standards maybe. It's funny that they both showed up in Command prompt hardware search but not in GUI I haven't even tried an SSD yet and these days large SSD drives are normal. I remember early in the development (which to me doesn't seem all that long ago) when we were hoping that they would make a SSD large enough to run Windows on
