[ltp] how to mount dvd?

[Tod Harter]

Hmmm, I can remember in the early days of CD-R and CD-R/W having similar 
problems with CDs. Some drives just don't like disks burned on certain other 
drives, or with certain brands of media, etc. R/W type disks tend to be less 
accepted than straight R's as well, in general. It could also be some quirk 
in the way the authoring software laid out the disk, there are pregaps and 
stuff that might need to have certain values. I'm no expert, but a good 
friend of mine authors DVD's for a living and they run into compatibility 
problems fairly often from what I hear. I'd try the disk in other OS's on 
other machines and see what happens. Chances are some will read it and some 
won't. 

On Tuesday 25 February 2003 05:39 pm, Katsumi Matsumoto wrote:
> Apologies for a newbie question in advance.
>
> I burned a DVD (4.3 GB of data) using an HP DVD writer (200e) connected to
> a desktop PC running linux via USB.  I know I burned the data correctly,
> because I can see the content of the DVD on a Mac running OSX.  However, I
> am unable to mount it on my Thinkpad T30 running RH8.  (Windows XP running
> on the same T30 in dual boot mode cannot recognize the DVD either).
>
> My T30 has a CD-RW/DVD-R driver in its ultra bay.  The commands I issued
> include:
> "mount /mnt/cdrom"
> "mount /dev/cdrom"
> "mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom"
>  ...
>
> I get the same error message:
> "mount: No medium found"
>
> Am I suppose to do something differently for a DVD than CD?  Also, I am
> puzzled as to why Windows XP couldn't see it, while Mac OSX could.  Can
> anyon tell me why?
>
> By the way, the image that I burned was created with:
> mkisofs -R -J -o image filenames
> So I think linux and windows should be able to read the DVD...
>
> Thanks for any advise.
> -Katsumi

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Tod Harter
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