The problem is fixed, see below

>
> if so some invisible typo is hosing fstab, looking around i have seen 
> people claiming the error message was cleared by using auto instead of 
> iso9660 and users instead of user 

I tried several thing and finally discovered that the option 'user' was 
spelled 'usr'. iso9660 or auto made no difference so I have returned to 
iso9660.

Thanks all

Peter

>
>
> try:
> dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto auto,users 0 0
> in fstab using spaces not tabs to separate the elements with no spaces 
> in an element
>
>

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