Am Dienstag, 8. August 2006 00:57 schrieb ext Hemmann, Volker Armin:
> On Monday 07 August 2006 21:49, sean wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > 	Whenever I mount my USB DVD writer or my SCSI cd-rom writer I always
> > get the following similar message for either device, root or otherwise.
> >
> > mount /mnt/dvd/
> > mount: block device /dev/sr1 is write-protected, mounting read-only

This is just a hint for you. /dev/sr1 is a read-only device per definition.

> > Both devices in my fstab have 'noauto,user,rw' but still the write only
> > message.

You can't enable things which are not there. A read-only device will stay 
read-only no matter what you put in fstab.

> well, if you mount a burnt blank, it has to be read only. Empty blanks
> can not be mounted. So everything seems to be ok. And if you want to
> write to a +rw blank, you don't mount them too. AFAIR of course.

That clearly depends on the filesystem you use. If you use iso9660, you have 
to create an image which is burnt to the disc unmounted.

However, if you use UDF on RW media (CD or DVD), you create a device mapping 
via pktcdvd.ko and pktsetup and mount the disc just like anything else.

Bye...

	Dirk
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