Removable media on FC5

[Brian Chadwick]

Akop Pogosian wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 01:10:16AM -0400, Steven Pasternak wrote:
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>> Akop Pogosian wrote:
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>>> On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 03:47:29PM +1000, Brian Chadwick wrote:
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>>>> Akop Pogosian wrote:
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>>>>> After putting a vanilla FC5 installation on my PC, I noticed that data
>>>>> CDs are not being mounted and that audio CDs are not being
>>>>> played automatically any more. What happened? I can mount the CDs
>>>>> with mount command though.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -akop
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>>>> have you ever installed FC5 before? ... or have you just switched from 
>>>> windows? ... in other words .. are you new to FC5 ?
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>>> That's the first time I installed it. It find it strange because this
>>> "just works" on other Fedora versions.
>>>
>>>
>>> -akop
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>> Is this a fresh install or an upgrade from previous versions? You can 
>> try (if using gnome) to go to System>Preferences>"Removable Drives and 
>> Media" and see what is set. In KDE, a window should nag you when you add 
>> anything. Also make sure that there is no CDROM location set in the 
>> fstab. I don't know why, but the automounting seems to not work in FC5 
>> when something is there for the CDs.
>> -Steven
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>
> It's a fresh install and those settings in Gnome are set to mount the CD
> automatically. There is nothing for CD in /etc/fstab. /dev/cdrom and
> /dev/dvd do point to the correct device files.
>
>   
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?