On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 06:49:48PM -0700, Steve Fink wrote: > 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 I have two CD drives mounted on a separate device controller and neither of them automount. -- ======================================================================= Sleep is for the weak and sickly. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
