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**claydoh** · 2025-09-06T10:59:17

Is your system not detecting DVDs. Or you just don't see the hardware where you expect it to? I assume that it is functional in Windows or elsewhere?
You won't see it in Dolphin without a disk. Probably one that is formatted, but I may be wrong on that one.
Do you have any appropriate software installed (K3B)? Install some if you don't. The drive should appear there.

But let's see:

You can dig around in KInfoCenter, in the USB or the PCI area and see if they are in there.

But in Konsole you can see it as well:

lsblk should show it even if there is no disk inserted

lsusb will list USB devices. An internal dive might be using a USB bus
lspci will show devices suing the PCI bus.

So, for example, in my case (external drive):

Code:

$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 476.9G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 100M 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 97.8G 0 part
├─sda3 8:3 0 594M 0 part
├─sda4 8:4 0 200M 0 part
├─sda5 8:5 0 16M 0 part
└─sda6 8:6 0 378.3G 0 part
sdb 8:16 0 1.9T 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 0 1.9T 0 part /mnt/backups
                                           /mnt/virts
                                           /mnt/Extras
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
zram0 251:0 0 256M 0 disk [SWAP]
nvme0n1 259:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 300M 0 part    /boot/efi
└─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 931.2G 0 part /home
                                                             /

/dev/sr0 is going to be an optical drive no matter how it is connected, so you should see this.
If you don't, then run the other commands to see what you find there-- it might not appear clearly labelled as an optical drive.

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Internal DVD drive not recognized

[Hardware] Internal DVD drive not recognized

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