Unable to mount CDrom in 5.2, reading past threads is of no help

[Gautam Gopalakrishnan]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:29:23AM -0800, scott renna wrote:
> mount /cdrom yields:
> 
> cd9660: /dev/acd0: Invalid argument
> 
> /etc/fstab is set up as such:
> 
> /dev/acd0    /cdrom      cd9660    ro,noauto    0 0

Hope you're not trying to mount an audio CD. Otherwise, try what's
below. It must say it's a cd-rom file system. If not, I guess the
cd is faulty.

head -c 65536 /dev/acd0 > a.txt && file a.txt

(if acd0 does not work, try acd0t01)

hth
Gautam