Craig, lshal is a handy utility. I took the liberty to monitor the devices when I put in a CD and this is what I received. This still did not result in an automatic mounting of the drive. Greg [root@Co09 tmp]# lshal -m Start monitoring devicelist: ------------------------------------------------- 10:28:07.090: storage_model_CD_224E property storage.removable.media_available = false 10:28:07.231: storage_model_CD_224E property storage.cdrom.write_speeds = {} 10:28:07.245: volume_label_EcCare_Health_Ce removed 10:28:23.019: storage_model_CD_224E property storage.removable.media_available = true 10:28:23.036: storage_model_CD_224E property storage.cdrom.write_speeds = {} 10:28:24.744: volume_label_EcCare_Health_Ce added ---------------------------- Craig, Not sure if this helps, but I have continued to make some observations with lshal -m and have found that the files below are not being created in the /media directory when a CD is inserted; also, obviously a mounted directory is also not created in the /media directory. The files below were created on a different machine as I inserted the same cd and monitored the output of lshal -m -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 69 2009-10-04 11:03 .hal-mtab -rw------- 1 root root 0 2009-10-04 11:02 .hal-mtab-lock -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines