CDROM

This article describes the setup of an internal optical drive like CD, DVD or Blue-Ray drives.

Hardware detection
To choose the right driver, first detect the used storage controller. You can use lspci for this task:

Kernel
You need to activate the following kernel options:

Advanced Configuration

 * hdparm - change hard drive performance parameters
 * Power management

Usage
You can mount the filesystems in several ways:
 * Single mount.
 * fstab - Automatic mount at boot time.
 * removable media - mount at demand.
 * AutoFS - Automatic mount at demand.

Troubleshooting
See libata wiki.

External resources

 * libata wiki