Mogens Kjaer writes : Dean S. Messing wrote: : ... : > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try : > dmesg | tail or so : : What's the last lines of dmesg when you try to mount? : : If I mount a UDF DVD (containing Windows Vista :-) ) I get: : : UDF-fs: Partition marked readonly; forcing readonly mount : UDF-fs INFO UDF 0.9.8.1 (2004/29/09) Mounting volume 'UDF Volume', : timestamp 2006/11/02 22:00 (1078) The last line is precisely how I wrote it. And this is also what others report on Google. Dean