Hi all, After unsuccessfully trying to open a cd-rom on Nautilus (I suppose it should be auto-mounted), I found the device was NOT mounted, and didn't manage to mount it manually (see terminal msgs below). I don't suppose it's a HW problem, since the machine dual-boots with Windows - where the same media can be read normally on same drive. Any hints ? --------------------------------------------------------------------- [root@inf-cpg-c2036-lx root]# df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda9 1983296 1663444 237924 88% / /dev/hda7 28816 6416 21120 24% /boot none 127220 0 127220 0% /dev/shm --------------------------------------------------------------------- [root@inf-cpg-c2036-lx root]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: Not a directory --------------------------------------------------------------------- [root@inf-cpg-c2036-lx root]# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom /dev/cdrom: Input/output error mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only /dev/cdrom: Input/output error mount: you must specify the filesystem type --------------------------------------------------------------------- [root@inf-cpg-c2036-lx root]# --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thnx . . . Thiers