As a now fully paid up member of the Linux community, my first query is:
"paid up member" ... How Ironic !
In Suse 10.0, in media, both my DVD drives appear. One is a DVD ROM, the other a DVD RW. Once, and once only despite it being the drive the system was installed from, the DVD RW won't mount! Now I have discovered Yast which in hardware/CD shows the two drives - twice. Like DVD RW, DVD ROM, DVD ROM, DVD RW. When Yast/CD is opened, neither have mount points. Asking Yast to mount them is done, the message says changes made so I finish. I close Yast, go back to media and only one drive - the DVD ROM - is mounted. Further, my external USB drive is 'locked' if it show which mostly it doesn't. Any suggestions? There also seems to be a number of apps missing; Krita and KOffice for instance.
There should be no need to use YaST to do anything like this.
Put the disk in the drive, and it should automagically mount and appear in /media/dvd_some_thing_or_othere (I'm on a Widblows box at work so I can't look right now).
There may also be a DVD icon on your desk top. Click that and you should get a file browser display of the disk contents.
Peter