Can't read any DVD, and can't mount the dvd drive

[Ashley Benton]

> First find out which is which.
> Type:
> eject hdc

hdc is the DVD drive

>
>
>
> Now check the mount points actually exist. Does /media contain cdrom0
> and cdrom1? If not create them (sudo mkdir -p /media/cdrom0
> /media/cdrom1)

Yes the mount point exist
james at james-desktop:~$ ls -l /media
total 12
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    6 2007-12-15 19:09 cdrom -> cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-12-15 19:09 cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-12-15 19:09 cdrom1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    7 2007-12-15 19:09 floppy -> floppy0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-12-15 19:09 floppy0



>
>
> Insert a DVD and type:
> mount /media/cdrom0 (for hdc)


james at james-desktop:~$ sudo mount /media/cdrom0
mount: No medium found


> What kind of DVDs are you trying? Data or Video?

I am trying to watch a video DVD

>
>
> Also what version of Ubuntu are you using?

Ubuntu 7.10

>
> (Old versions seem to use /dev/hd? for Optical drives connected as IDE)
>
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