DVD drive not reading discs

[Fernando]

Hi all.
I just noticed that my DVD drive is not reading ANY of my CD/DVDs anymore. Whenever a disc is inserted, it tries to read it, it spins for a little while, and that's it. I can eject it both through the unit's button and through console.
If I type

sudo lshw -class disk

, the result is:

*-disk                    
      description: SCSI Disk
      product: Card  Reader
      vendor: Multiple
      physical id: 0.0.0
      bus info: scsi@6:0.0.0
      logical name: /dev/sdb
      version: 1.00
      capabilities: removable
      configuration: logicalsectorsize=512 sectorsize=512
    *-medium
         physical id: 0
         logical name: /dev/sdb
 *-disk
      description: ATA Disk
      product: Hitachi HCS5C101
      vendor: Hitachi
      physical id: 0.0.0
      bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
      logical name: /dev/sda
      version: A3EA
      serial: JC0950HX0WA54H
      size: 931GiB (1TB)
      capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
      configuration: ansiversion=5 logicalsectorsize=512 sectorsize=512 signature=9532ab25
 *-cdrom
      description: DVD-RAM writer
      product: CDDVDW SH-S223C
      vendor: TSSTcorp
      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: me01
      capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
      configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc

It says status=nodisc although I had a data DVD inserted at the moment. I've tried different discs with the same result.
Thanks in advance for your help.

[claydoh]

You might try cleaning the drive as well as checking the cables if it is a PC, or removing and reinserting the drive if it a removable drive.

How old is the drive? They do die after a while.

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