On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 03:47:18PM +1000, Brian Chadwick wrote: > > > mounting of removeable hardware is handled by the gnome virtual stuff > now .. ie. hal, gnome-mount etc .. > > in addition ... there are no static mount points for the drives .. they > are created dynamically when u insert a disc ... assuming all is working > well... > > if that is not happening for you ... yet you can mount the drives > manually (which uses a different program and hardware model) ... it > could point to a firmware problem with the CD drives you have .... how > old and what model are your drives? > All of my optical drives are about 5 year old and are using SCSI interface. It looks like it's a bug with hald. There is an open bug report already: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201533 -akop