I have been comparing the way other installations handle CDROM drives this and notice that ...

A. In /mnt there is a link called 'cdrom' which points to the directory /mnt/auto/cdrom
B. On my problem PC the link exists (and, if deleted, is recreated on boot) but the directory does not.

If anyone can help me further with this problem of the CD drive which is visible and detected but not readable, then that would be a great help.

Regards,
Alan Searle.