Can you please do sudo udevmonitor -e | tee udevmonitor.txt then connect the drive, wait some seconds until it settled, press Control-C to stop udevmonitor, and then do
dmesg > dmesg.txt ? Please attach the two logs here. ** Changed in: hal (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Needs Info -- hal does not detect media change in USB-DVD-Drive https://launchpad.net/bugs/56484 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs