Scott, > The kernel probes it and find it as you said in /var/log/dmesg. Then I > go to mount it with mount /dev/hdc1 as the kernel probe shows to > /dev/mnt and it says it needs to kinow the file system type which I do > not know for dvd media. As a side note this is a brand new drive. >> mount /dev/hda /dev/mnt In my example, did you see a "1"? A cd or dvd normally doesn't have a file system in the HD sense. Try mount /dev/hdc /dev/mnt