cd drive mounting

[Mark Weaver]

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

Hi Steve,

I hadn't thought of that and I shall certainly take a look at that.

thanks a bunch.

-- 
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."