On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 10:55 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: > Steve Fink wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 08:41 -0600, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > >>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 > >> > > > > > > Mark & Aaron, > > > > Do you also have automount turned on? > > > > As your user, not root, check... > > Preferences --> Removable Storage, check the box that says mount > > removable media when inserted. > > > > Best, > > > > Steve > > hi Steve, > > I doubled checked the removable storage interface and all is as it > should be. I looked to make sure just where the CD drive is connected on > the motherboard and it is on IDE1 whereas both hard drives are on IDE0. > I've got the services utility open, autofs is running and the status thusly: > > Configured Mount Points: > ------------------------ > > Active Mount Points: > -------------------- > > Might there be some configuration that needs to be done that might have > supposed to have been done during installation that didn't happen for > some reason. So far as i've seen from another on this list my fstab > appears to contain exactly the same thing as his. At present the only > way I can mount and use the CD drive for reading data cd's is if I > become root and manually mount the device. > > -- > 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, As root edit the file named /usr/share/hal/fdi/90defaultpolicy/storage- policy.fdi Locate the line that says <merge key="storage.policy.default.mount_option.noauto" type="bool">true</merge> Change the true to false. Then reboot. See if that helps. Best, Steve
