automatic mounting of mass storage devices: light shed on the problem in it's true form after experimentation, consultation and study

[kwhiskers]

PS: I don't own any other devices to plug in, so I cannot try what
would happen if a second were to be plugged in. Sorry not to be able
to help.

On 10/27/05, kwhiskers <kwhiskers at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your help. Yes, on my box it works like that, too. It all
> works great! I was simply misunderstanding what automounting is.
>
> When I put in a cd, a new instance of konqueror opens, already showing
> me the contents of the directory of the cd, WITHOUT any clicking or
> action on my part.
>
> When I plug in removable media, however, this does not happen. This is
> why I thought automounting was not occurring. I have to seek out the
> removable media icon (on gnome, it will be dynamically created on the
> desktop; on kde, it is located a couple of layers down in the sidebar
> - I like my desktop clean and uncluttered, but having to click down a
> few layers is not the best solution either) and then one has to click
> on it to get the media mounted.
>
> After having learned how this system works, I have come to the
> conclusion that I DO find it acceptable. It was simply the different
> treatment of cds and removable media that confused me.
>
> As for your problem with not getting the second device mounted, have a
> look at writing a udev rule. In my erroneous foray into trying to get
> 'automounting' to work, I learned about the beauty of udev rules. I am
> certain this would solve the problem brilliantly.
>
> On 10/27/05, Anil Kumar Sharma <xplusaks at gmail.com> wrote:
> > First thing first, Auto mount USB device in FC4 is limited to craeting a
> > mount point and providing an icon on desktop to manage the USB device
> > through right click. This is my understanding for USB on FC4+KDE.
> >  2. Please tell me if it work like this (for you); in case you have one
> USB
> > device (camera/drive/anything) already mounted and you insert another
> > device
> > in any other free USB port. Does it auto mount second time?
> >  3. In my experience, it does not work and the second device need be
> > manually mounted after creating a mount point.
> >  4. Strangely the second auto mount works for second device also, atleast
> > on
> > my FC4 box, if login is root (Which I generally do not do). This all
> under
> > kde.
> >  Thanks.
> >
> >
> >  On 10/27/05, kwhiskers <kwhiskers at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks to all who have tried to help. I hope to consolidate the thread
> > > here.
> > >
> > > I have partially solved the automounting of usb 'scsi' mass storage
> > > cameras, which is done by hal. No udev rules are necessary. No device
> > > definitions are required. It's all already there. fstab-sync takes care
> > of
> > > creating mount points. /dev/sda and sda1 both appear when the camera is
> > > plugged in; the necessary kernel modules are automatically loaded.
> > > Furthermore, it all works...
> > >
> > > If one is using gnome: plug in the camera and the filesystem on the
> > > camera's memory chip will be automatically mounted to /media/usbdisk.
> > >
> > > The problem is how to get this to happen under kde. Under kde, one has
> to
> > > manually mount the camera. Isn't there a way to make this behave under
> > kde
> > > the way it is supposed to?
> > >
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