Removable media on FC5

[Akop Pogosian]

On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 03:47:18PM +1000, Brian Chadwick wrote:
> >  
> mounting of removeable hardware is handled by the gnome virtual stuff 
> now .. ie. hal, gnome-mount etc ..
> 
> in addition ... there are no static mount points for the drives .. they 
> are created dynamically when u insert a disc ... assuming all is working 
> well...
> 
> if that is not happening for you ... yet you can mount the drives 
> manually (which uses a different program and hardware model) ... it 
> could point to a firmware problem with the CD drives you have .... how 
> old and what model are your drives?
> 

All of my optical drives are about 5 year old and are using SCSI
interface.  It looks like it's a bug with hald. There is an open bug
report already:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201533


-akop