I have been able to mount a magnetic optical drive with an fstab entry of... /dev/maxoptix8 /media/optical xfs noauto,rw,user 0 0 and a udev script of... BUS=="scsi", SYSFS{vendor}=="Maxoptix", NAME{all_partitions}="maxoptix" This allows me to click on the optical drive in the Computer folder to mount it. However I don't see an entry in usermount for the same device. Is this a bug in usermount? I would have thought that since both the directory /media/optical and the device /dev/maxoptix8 exists that this should be sufficient to cause a line for this device to appear in the usermount window alongside the cdrecorder, cdrom and floppy. Jack