Optical drive failing to mount, yet can be read from

Optical drive failing to mount, yet can be read from I've had this problem for a while, but have only recently really tested what works and what doesn't, and it's frightfully confusing. Here's my drive situation (Sony Vaio FE890 running ArchLinux):
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"It is probably just end of it's life.

I see this sort of random behaviour all the time in slim line optical drives (desktop as well, but a lot less common).

Usually I see that it can read from produced cd's and dvd's but home burnt r's and rw's fail... but, there is no one answer fits all and it is always random as you have said above.

Get another drive and swap over all the housings (that was it costs £20 instead of Sony's £200!), or if you have a spare computer - use that, convert to ISO and mount it on your machine."