Jay, All: Thanks for your continued help. the saga continues... > Try this next, from a console or terminal, type: > > ls -ld /mnt/cdrom2 > > and see what the permissions are. drwxrwxrwx 1root root 0 August 16 1705 /mnt/cdrom2 > > The important part the the first. You should see "drwxrwxr-x" and not so far so good > The other thing is the "supermount" part in fstab. When things > arnt working > right, you should turn that off. To turn that off, do this: > > umount /mnt/cdrom2 #this may or may not do anything > > Then edit fstab- comment out the line for /mnt/cdrom2 (just put a > # in front > of the line) did that > Now, put a CD in the drive that you know is good. To mount it > manually, type: > > mount /dev/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 > > And let us know what the output for that is. mount: block device /dev/cdrom2 is write protected, mounting read only mount: you must specify a filesystem type >If there is no > output, then do > this: > > cd /mnt/cdrom2 > ls * > > and give the output of that. ls: *: No such file or directory.