[Hoary] No CDs/DVDs mount - ISO9660 is an "unknown type"

Ben Novack bennovack at gmail.com
Sun Mar 13 00:06:19 UTC 2005


An update: DMA is no longer on, and the device manager shows the disc
being recognized - ie, it's correctly identified as the Hoary Preview
install disc, containing data and no audio. It just won't mount.


On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:01:55 -0500, Ben Novack <bennovack at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had a working DVD drive when I went to bed last night; I even
> watched a movie through libdvdcss and totem-xine without a problem.
> This morning, any disc - including the Hoary Preview disc I installed
> from - gives me this when I click on it:
> "mount: unknown filesystem type 'iso9660'"
> 
> What might have gotten broken? I ran hdparm to enable dma on my dvd
> player last night to get acceptable movie performance, might that have
> been the problem?
> 
> --Ben
>




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