Well I have now some conclusions about what and how is happening: first, here is the part of my fstab regarging dvdrom units: /dev/dvd /media/dvd subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /data reiserfs defaults 1 2 NOW: 1-/dev/dvdrecorder is working property. It's ok; it automouts cds and dvs without problems. 2-/dev/dvd refuses to automount some media(not all): a)-It's not a hardware problem, because the same DVD unit works just fine(I've tried right today) in another machine, which has suse 9.2 installed. b)-/dev/dvd automounts cds without trouble, but refuses to automount DVDs(if you insert a DVD and press Ctr+alt+f10 any message apears, also when you issue the mount command without argument it appears /dev/dvd is not mounted), allthough for some reason inserted DVDs are usable by yast or xine's DVD navihation feature, be it that these programs mount the media when they need, or maybe that the media is unreportedly (sub/semi/auto)mounted. any hints? regards jorge