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First of all, what are you trying to do? If it's just to play an audio CD, you don't need to mount it. I think you are on the right path, but you are either misclassifying the file type, or passing in parameters you don't need to. If you can give some more specifics about what is on the CD, that would be helpful. -- J.W.
i'm gonna take a wild guess here, so if i'm wrong, i apologize for wasting space, but is it possible you have a samsung cd-rom? i know with red hat and fedora, for some reason, they don't recognize certain samsung cdroms...there is a work around for this, but i can't find the post at the moment...if i find it, i'll post back to you...but i know it was in the red hat distro section here, so you might do a search here about cdroms and redhat/fedora
Your cdrom device is /dev/cdrom (by your fstab). The right command should be:
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
If it mounts read-only this is irrelevant, cause the cd is already read-only.
what is the "udf" doing in the fstab? Did you try to remove it and check?
default]$ ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 May 16 22:08 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc
default]$ ls -l /mnt/cdrom
total 0
mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
default]# cd /mnt/cdrom
cdrom]# ls
success!!
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