I can't get my Toshiba DVD/CD to work.

When I ran dmesg|grep ^hd, the following was displayed:

hda: IBM-DARA-20600, ATA Disk Drive
hdc: Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-C2402, Atapi CD/DVD-ROM drive
hda: 11733120 sectors (6007 MB) w/412KiB Cache,
CHS=776/240/63, UDMA(33)
hdc: driver not present
hdc: driver not present

I'm using RH 7.2.

When I check, it seems like everything is fine.

Trying to play a cd, I get the error message:

Error accessing cdrom device.
Please check to make sure cdrom drive support is
compiled into the kernal, and that you have permission
to access this device.

I'm new to Linux and unsure how to access the kernal.

Can anyone help me out?

Thank you in advance,

Gern