On Wednesday 14 June 2006 17:47, you wrote:

OK, I'll soon be out of my depth (hardware has never appealed to me much, I wish computers didn't have it...) I notice in your fstab options for the drive you don't have 'user'. This may be because all the other options you have (most of which I don't understand) do the same thing.

Have you tried mounting a disc manually?

In case you're not sure about this:

Insert the disc and cancel KDE's automount message.

type: $ mount /dev/hdc

Hi Richard Many Thanks

nick@linux-nxe0:~> mount /dev/hdc mount: only root can mount /dev/hdc on /media/dvdrecorder nick@linux-nxe0:~> su Password: linux-nxe0:/home/nick # mount /dev/hdc mount: unknown filesystem type 'subfs'

With Data DVD inserted, likewise with audio CD inserted, but audio CD Plays! I think I might reinstall, now they have fixed a lot of the package management problems and updater. As an avid Suse user of 8 or so years. I do not consider this the "best" of their distributions Many thanks for help. Kind Regards -Nick Daniels