SATA DVD mounting issues

[Terry Polzin]

On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 12:16 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 09:33 -0400, Weiner, Michael wrote:
> > The main issue at the moment is user mounting his
> > SATA DVD drive ... he puts in a media disk and there is nothing
> > mounted,
> > and nothing is showing in dmesg to indicate that the system has even
> > noticed the drive being opened and a disk inserted. 
> 
> For what it's worth, I recently installed a SATA DVD (a Liteon unit,
> nothing fancy) and it worked first time. That was under KDE however.
> 
> poc
> 

Does dmesg show the device even being "seen"?
Sorry to jump into the thread late.