Mount an external CD ROM via USB

Hi,
I recycled an old Zyxel NAS with current OpenWrt and got it to work with 4TByte disk for use as media center. Now I tried to add (aka mount) an external CD ROM drive via USB to speed up the transfer of my CD ROM collection to the NAS - and here I fail. I proceeded according to mount the HD drive, added some recommended drivers, I know the mount point (sr0) - however the device keeps showing als "not present".
Any hint to proceed?
Cheers Uli

lsusb
opkg list-installed | grep iso | grep kmod
opkg list-installed | grep usb

I tried to mount the CD ROM as /mnt/cdrom

root@OpenWrt:~# ls /mnt/cdrom
_Not_Mounted_
root@OpenWrt:~# ls /dev/sr0
/dev/sr0

Here are the results of your suggestions:

root@OpenWrt:~# lsusb
-ash: lsusb: not found
root@OpenWrt:~# ls usb
ls: usb: No such file or directory
root@OpenWrt:~# ls cdrom
ls: cdrom: No such file or directory
root@OpenWrt:~# opkg list-installed|grep iso|grep kmod
kmod-nls-iso8859-1 - 4.14.95-1
kmod-nls-iso8859-13 - 4.14.95-1
kmod-nls-iso8859-15 - 4.14.95-1
root@OpenWrt:~# opkg list-installed|grep usb
kmod-usb-core - 4.14.95-1
kmod-usb-storage - 4.14.95-1
kmod-usb-storage-extras - 4.14.95-1
kmod-usb-storage-uas - 4.14.95-1

Cheers Uli

opkg update
opkg install kmod-fs-isofs
opkg install usbutils
[REPLUG]
lsusb
mkdir -p /mnt/cdrom; mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom; ls /mnt/cdrom

note: some platforms need one or some of
kmod-usb2
kmod-usb3
kmod-usb-ehci
kmod-usb-ohci
kmod-usb-xhci
funny your hard drive work without at least one of them... maybe my ignorance or perhaps list-installed wont show built-ins or something.

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Hi,
now it seems to work fine - the kernel module and the usbutils were missing. Thanks for your help. The HD is connected via SATA, therefor no need for USB.
Cheer Uli

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