Comment 5 for bug 600213

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.