Okay, just FYI. I've been googling this issue for two hours now with no success so I'm going to post a question and hope I don't get flamed.

This is going to sound a little ridiculous. I burned a few DVDRW on my mac machine at work. They're data dvds containing .avi files.

I get home only to discover my Vista machine doesn't like the discs. No problem, I boot up my Linux partition only to discover that I can't seem to mount these DVDs under linux either.

I quickly determine that I need to use hmount, instead of mount, so I use these commands:

$ sudo hmount /dev/sr0 /mnt
/dev/sr0: contains 1 HFS partition
hmount: /dev/sr0: not a Macintosh HFS volume (Invalid argument)

$ dmesg
[ 7182.485003] hfs: can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sr0.

I know I'm missing something easy here. Can anyone help?

Specs: Linux XXXXXXX 2.6.38-11-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 29 19:05:14 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

$ more /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s 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 nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=03296fc9-1d18-4f11-a175-1f4815759f20 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=3dc2291f-f9c3-47f9-999b-7cd1a0971ed8 none swap sw 0 0

$ more /etc/mtab
/dev/sda5 / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw 0 0
none /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0
none /dev devtmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /var/run tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0
none /var/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/lori/.gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon rw,nosuid,nodev,user=lori 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/TMOWEB vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,ut
f8=1,showexec,flush 0 0

Is isn't for sure that the filesystems on the disks are HFS, maybe it is UDF although it isn't going right with the windows try you have done

So try with mount -t udf /youDrive /mnt.
Or try to sustitude the udf with hfs.

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So I did try that earlier, but here's the output:

$ sudo mount -t udf /dev/sr0 /mnt

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
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

$ dmesg | tail
[12312.328478] UDF-fs: No anchor found
[12312.328489] UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
[12338.027617] UDF-fs: No anchor found
[12338.027624] UDF-fs: No partition found (1)


$ sudo mount -t hfs /dev/sr0 /mnt
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
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

$ dmesg | tail
[12429.280156] hfs: can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sr0.

This is kinda a stab in the dark, but you might try using dd to get a copy of the disk in iso format, then use mount to mount it with the loop option.

Though you may have to mount it before you can use dd. I don't know, just a thought.

i think it is a great idea, what you need to do is :

then mount that image with the

look in the man page of dd in case you need more options.