On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 16:58 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: > maybe I'm asking the question incorrectly. it just seems strange to me > that there must be thousands of folks running FC3 without any trouble > getting their CD drive to auto mount as normal users. > > is this a true statement? > > what is it within the system that is "supposed" to enable this > functionality? > > -- > Mark > > "If you have found a very wise man, then you've found > a man that at one time was an idiot and lived long enough > to learn from his own stupidity." > Mark, This is a possible answer... >From what little I understand about HAL, HAL does not scan optical drives attached to the same bus as a hard drive. So if your CD-ROM is slave to a hard drive, HAL will not scan the media state and therefore it will not auto mount. Check to see if your CD-ROM is slaved to a hard drive and if so change it to another IDE bus, see what happens. Best, Steve
