LinuxQuestions.org - mounting a cdrom drive

hey,

I am having trouble mounting a cdrom drive. I am running red hat 9 on a dell laptop and when I type the command (as root of course)

Code:

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

I get the following message...

mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read only
mount: No medium found

But when I put in a cd and type

Code:

ls -l /mnt/cdrom

all I get is total 0. I have never had problems mounting my cdrom drive before. Is this because I am trying to read from a cd I burned from windows. The disc contains the source code of strace as a .tar.bz2 so this should surely open right? But the thing is audio cds won't even open with the cd player program... I am truely lost with this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Oh my /etc/fstab contains...

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 /swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

and my /etc/mtab contains....

/dev/hda2 / ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0

you might notice that there is no mention of a cdrom drive in my /etc/mtab file. Can anyone see anything from any of this. It is driving me mad! Pease help!!!....

Gearóid