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Birdman

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From: Surrey, UK

Registered: 2006-01-11

Posts: 121

Is my DVD-ROM broken?

I have both a DVD-ROM and DVD-RW. The DVD-RW will mount disks fine. My DVD-ROM will mount CDROMs fine but not DVDs. dmesg confirms that hdd is my RW and hdc is my ROM. I have sym links to /dev/hdc for both dvd and cd. My /etc/fstab is:

/dev/cdrom             /mnt/cd   iso9660   ro,users,noauto,exec    0      0
/dev/hdd               /mnt/rw   iso9660   ro,users,noauto,exec    0      0
/dev/dvd                /mnt/dvd  udf       ro,users,noauto,exec     0      0

I am in the optical group and have tried mounting the DVD as root. Each time I get the same error:

[alan@avocet ~]$ mount /mnt/dvd/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/dvd,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

Does this sound like a faulty drive or have I missed something?

dongiovanni

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2006-10-06

Posts: 110

Re: Is my DVD-ROM broken?

Try instead of the "udf" filesystem "auto", Perhaps the dvd's use the iso filesystem!

DonGiovanni

Birdman

Member

From: Surrey, UK

Registered: 2006-01-11

Posts: 121

Re: Is my DVD-ROM broken?

Try instead of the "udf" filesystem "auto", Perhaps the dvd's use the iso filesystem!

DonGiovanni

Spot on. It worked 

Thanks.