DVD Drive wont mount

[Jason Andresen]

Tyndall, B. wrote:

> Hi,  I am having trouble using my dvd drive in KDE, as it wont mount, using dvd, cd, cdrw. all I get is the error message saying:
> 
> Could not mount device.
> The reported error was:
> cd9660: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument
> 
> Has anyone got a solution for this?

Do you have two optical disc (DVD/CD/CDRW/etc..) devices in your system? 
  If so, it is possible that the DVD is actually acd1.

% grep acd /var/run/dmesg.boot

Should tell you which device is which.

You cannot mount audio CDs directly.  You can mount Video DVDs, although 
some of the files will not be readable.  Data CDs and DVDs should be 
readable in most cases.

You might also want to make sure the device nodes are correct in /dev. 
You can do this by:
# cd /dev
# sh ./MAKEDEV acd0

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