How do we mount USB DVD drives?

[jdsweet]

Hi all, I can't seem to mount a USB DVD drive inside retroPie.

I have a dvd with file structure retropie/roms/snes but all I see for devices is sg0, nothing under /media and about 10 dofferent USB devices listed under for some reason.

I can see my drive through /dev/disk/by-ID. How do I mount it or access the disc contents so I can transfer them to the raspberry Pi 3's snes folder?

How do we mount a USB optical disc drive and access the file system on a disc so we can transfer files to RetroPi's send folder?

I can not figure this out. Thanks

[jdsweet]

Figured it out. First I used mkdir/mnt/dvd and then I mounted it with mount /dev/sr0 /mint/dvd and now I am trying to see if I can copy the files over with the cp command.

[Clyde]

Thanks for sharing your solution. You have two typos, though, a missing space in mkdir /mnt/dvd and an additional "i" in mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/dvd.

By the way, you could omit the subdir dvd alltogether and directly mount /dev/sr0 in /mnt.

[RetroFloppy08]

@jdsweet Did you eventually figure it out? Can you share the script you used?

[mitu]

@RetroFloppy08 Please don't bump very old topics. The poster in the topic hasn't visited the forum since the topic was active, 4 years ago.