Hello, I'm now using Linux debian 2.6.32-3-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 24 18:07:42 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux but I'm still not able to read DVDs or CDs. The media and the hardware that I'm using *works* without problem in windows and mac osx.
Besides upgrading my kernel, I also changed some things in fstab so that my fstab now looks like: r...@debian:/home/stuckey# cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # / was on /dev/sda1 during installation UUID=cca7add1-981f-469f-9285-ae17722e24bd / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1 # swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation UUID=334c0de5-c6b2-4990-a49b-83f4dd0c0a0d none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/western/ auto rw,user, 0 0 *What I'm doing to mount the media: * r...@debian:/home/stuckey# mount /dev/sr0 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 (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?) In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so *What I see in DMESG:* [ 33.916174] cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! [ 33.951340] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE [ 33.951344] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] [ 33.951348] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Logical block address out of range [ 33.951353] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 [ 33.951360] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0 [ 33.951363] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0 [ 33.952816] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE [ 33.952819] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] [ 33.952823] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Logical block address out of range [ 33.952826] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 [ 33.952833] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0 [ 33.952836] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0 [ 177.304067] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE [ 177.304071] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] [ 177.304075] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Logical block address out of range [ 177.304080] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 01 00 [ 177.304087] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 64 [ 177.311214] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE [ 177.311218] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] [ 177.311221] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Logical block address out of range [ 177.311225] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 [ 177.311232] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1024 [ 177.312078] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE [ 177.312081] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] [ 177.312084] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Logical block address out of range [ 177.312088] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 01 00 [ 177.312095] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 2048 [ 177.312100] UDF-fs: No anchor found [ 177.312103] UDF-fs: No partition found (1) [ 177.331394] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE [ 177.331398] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] [ 177.331401] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Logical block address out of range [ 177.331405] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 01 00 [ 177.331412] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 64 [ 177.331486] isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=sr0, iso_blknum=16, block=16