Mount CD/DVD fails. K3B can mount though?
 

Hi again.

Some please put me right.... again.

Ok I want to make a little backup script so need to mount my CD/DVD drive. However when I enter 'mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom' it complains about it cannot read the super block. This seems to only happen on blank media. If the media already has files on it it 'usually' has no problem.

However I am a little pussled as when I run K3B from the command line it detects the drive and the empty media reporting all the media's properties.

So why the apparent discrepency?

Thanks in advance.

A blank CD/DVD can not be mounted since it does not contain a valid filesystem.

There is a timing/information (ATIP) track on the CD that contains the media properties that burning applications can read.

Maybe this should be a sticky or something ... this question has been asked many times.

Remember that you can't mount something that does not contain a filesystem. This means not blank CDs or audio CDs, neither of which contain filesystems. (you need to rip CDs to get the music off there)

Ok guys, makes sense. Thanks for that. No doubt I will be back with more questions in the near future :-)

BashTin