Cannot mount volume.

[barkhat]

I wanted to put in some dvds but I got this message:

Invalid mount option when attempting to mount the volume.

is there something special i need to do to the drive? thanks.

[Husse]

Welcome to Mint barkhat
You can get that message sometimes, but CDs and DVDs should auotmount.
Can you see the DVD-player in Nautilus (the file browser)?
You should have a line in your fstab (/etc/fstab) like this:
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
for each CD- or DVD-player

[barkhat]

Welcome to Mint barkhat
You can get that message sometimes, but CDs and DVDs should auotmount.
Can you see the DVD-player in Nautilus (the file browser)?
You should have a line in your fstab (/etc/fstab) like this:
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
for each CD- or DVD-player

Thank you, Husse, for the warm welcome!

I checked and yes, it does it appear in Nautilus. And run that command I see two drives but they are numbered 0 & 1 (starts with 0 instead of 1)

[barkhat]

I should add that when I just tried clicking on the drive in Nautilus I got "Unable to mount media. There is probably no media in the drive."

But I do have a disk in there.

[Husse]

I did not copy the number 0 line
Now this is something I (hopefully) understand.
For some reason the player is not able to read your DVD
either the DVD or your player is probably broken, that is if you have a line in fstab like described, and no oddities in your system.
Can you test the disc elsewhere?

[barkhat]

I did not copy the number 0 line
Now this is something I (hopefully) understand.
For some reason the player is not able to read your DVD
either the DVD or your player is probably broken, that is if you have a line in fstab like described, and no oddities in your system.
Can you test the disc elsewhere?

well, the disk works in my winxp laptop. i'm going to assume that there is something wrong with it for now then.it is a data dvd with recorded tv shows i wanted to view (along with a couple others that are problematic), on my desktop, but this particular disk seems a no go.

*sigh*

[scorp123]

but this particular disk seems a no go.

How was it created? If it was created via some non-standard Microsoft-proprietary bullsh** CD-writing software then it is obvious that it will not work anywhere but on Microsoft platforms

Stick to accepted international standards such as ISO9660 for creating DVD's and CD's and you have no such problems.

[barkhat]

but this particular disk seems a no go.

How was it created? If it was created via some non-standard Microsoft-proprietary bullsh** CD-writing software then it is obvious that it will not work anywhere but on Microsoft platforms

Stick to accepted international standards such as ISO9660 for creating DVD's and CD's and you have no such problems.

hmmm...well, it might have been created with a software called roxio. i'm not sure just now.

thanks for the info. it's good to have that snippet of information for the future!