Re: [ubuntu-uk] Twin DVD drives not mounting

2015-09-20 Thread Tony Pursell
Hi David I'm not a big expert on these things. Here are a few ideas. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong. First of all. I must say that I'm not sure what your problem is. You don't usually need an entry in fstab to mount DVDs. On my PC a pre-recorded CD or DVD just gets mounted

[ubuntu-uk] Twin DVD drives not mounting

2015-09-20 Thread David Goldsbrough
About 2 months ago I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on a win vista machine that was lying a little idle. One reason for this was the large screen attached to it and my failing eyesight at the time. I now know that was a little futile of a reason. My eyesight deteriorated significantly afterwards to the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Twin DVD drives not mounting

2015-09-20 Thread peter maddison
Hi David, To find out what drives are connected you should type, in terminal (whichever type you're using) ' *sudo blkid*' and that should come up with something like... pooky2483@pooky2483-Kubuntu-1404-LTS:~$ *sudo blkid* /dev/sda1: UUID="a4cc9e70-36d1-4dcd-ad90-ec5c2aaf4b51" TYPE="ext4"