Re: Unable to mount UDF Volume

[Steven Sciame <sasciame@yahoo.com>]

> Assuming that /dev/sr0 is the correct device, /media/cdrom exists
> and you have the right permissions, what happens if you try:
> 
> % mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom


steven@debtop:~$ su
Password: 
debtop:/home/steven# mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

debtop:/home/steven# mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0
mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

debtop:/home/steven#


> 
> or
> 
> % mount -t udf /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom
> 

debtop:/home/steven# mount -t udf /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

debtop:/home/steven# mount -t udf /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0
mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

debtop:/home/steven#



>>  >> It just works as expected on the Ubuntu laptop, but I don't 
> have access to that one all of the time.  Mine is running Debian Squeeze. 
>>  >
>>  >Could you paste the corresponding lines from /etc/fstab from both
>>  >systems, please?
>> 
>>  Here is the fstab from Squeeze:
> [cut]
>>  /dev/cdrom        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
> 
> And what happens if you simply try:
> 
> % mount /media/cdrom0

debtop:/home/steven# mount /media/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

debtop:/home/steven# mount /media/cdrom0
mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

debtop:/home/steven# 


> 
>>  And here it is from Ubuntu
> [no reference to optical device in /etc/fstab]
>>  What do you think?
> 
> Hmmm... not a Ubuntu user so no idea how mounting is handled there, but
> I suspect that it's being handled by your DE.
> 
> Try the above and we'll move from there.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Raf
>