cd drive mounting

[Steve Fink]

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 at trinity.edu 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
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> >>San Antonio, TX 78212-7200
> >>
> >>telephone: (210)-999-7484
> >>email:akonstam at trinity.edu
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > 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