There must be something dodgy about mounting the DVD drive in LinuxMint 10 as 
well, both the Ubuntu version and the Debian version. Here's my story:
I downloaded and burned the Debian ISO successfully using K3b. Then, to be on 
the safe side, I burned three DVDs for backup, also using K3b, setting it to 
verify data after burn. Data passed the verification, so I went on to install 
the Debian issue from the DVD I did earlier. However, NONE of the backups I had 
made was mounted! I got a vague complaint about the DVD being write protected, 
and looking in the logs might give me a clue. The next day, my step son bought 
a laptop with Windows installed. I thought I could see if Windows is better at 
reading DVDs, and lo and behold! Windows could read all three backup disks 
without problems, and without complaining. Here's the relevant line in my fstab:
"/dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0"
Going back to the Ubuntu heritage didn't help either. Just for the heck of it, 
I used Brasero to another backup disk, with the same result.
Also, using K3b or Brasero to try to append things onto the disks only results 
in the program asking you to insert an appendable disk. This implies to me 
that, somehow, for some reason, the system lies to the program.
Opening the Computer window shows the DVD drive as long as it is empty, but 
after inserting any of the backup disks, the DVD icon disappears. Apparently, 
it is trying to mount the disk, since it spins for a couple of seconds, but 
fails, for some reason.
Surely, the Linux community can not allow Windows to be better at anything, can 
it?
There is a program called DVDisaster, which can mount and read all three 
backups, so it is evidently not an impossible task.

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Title:
  Isadora doesn't read DVD-R and DVD-RW

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