cd drive mounting

[Mark Weaver]

Steve Fink wrote:
> 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
>>>>One Trinity Place.
>>>>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

Hi Steve,

I really thought that was going to do it, but I'm still getting this 
message when trying to read a data CD as a normal user.

mount: must be superuser to use mount
Please check that the disk is entered correctly.

-- 
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."