Comment 22 for bug 646293

Same problem here, the drive does not mount or spin up inserted discs. Can be done manually though with the command "udisks --mount /dev/sr1". This is on linux mint katya with 2.6.38-8-generic.

The ide-usb adapter: Bus 001 Device 011: ID 0409:0056 NEC Corp.

From dmesg:
[11970.092170] usb 1-4.6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11
[11970.188961] scsi7 : usb-storage 1-4.6:1.0
[11973.711964] scsi 7:0:0:0: CD-ROM PLEXTOR DVDR PX-716A 1.10 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[11973.851160] sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[11973.851517] sr 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
[11973.851760] sr 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 5