Setting Up Optical Drives on Arch Linux

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Enable loading of the optical-drive driver

Common Issues

If you want to use your optical CD, DVD, or Blu-ray drive on Arch Linux, you may notice that it does not appear. Searching for devices such as:

/dev/sr0
/dev/sg0
/dev/sg1
/dev/sg2

may return nothing. This is because the required driver is not enabled by default.

To fix this, enable the sg module:

echo "sg" | sudo tee /etc/modules-load.d/sg.conf

Then reboot your system. After that, your optical drive should appear correctly.