Automount of CD-ROMs no longer works

[Mike McCarty]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:18:11 -0500
> Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> Someone please advise me on how to proceed to get this
>> drive to work for me the way I would like.
> 
> Well, FC2 probably predates udev, but I know when I replaced
> a DVD drive I found a rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules file
> which was apparently generated on first boot. I had to
> modify the file to remove the pointers to the old drive and
> make the new drive show up as the 1st device.
> 
> Wouldn't surprise me if there is something similar stashed
> under /etc somewhere in FC2.

Your suggestion makes sense, except that the Memorex drive
is not the original, either. I don't have the original drive
here for test; it's at a friend's house. I installed both
the Sony and the Memorex on the same cable etc.; physically
the installations are identical.

After a manual mount, I have...

/dev/hdc on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,user=jmccarty)

My /etc/fstab entry looks like this:

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

[spaces removed for clarity of reading]

I wonder if this is different? It shows /dev/hdc mounted, not
/dev/cdrom.

$ ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 8 Aug 21 18:08 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc

Maybe I should look at the /dev/cdrom device when it's working.

I don't run udev...

$ man udev
No manual entry for udev

I had considered using udev, but after I read the documentation
by the author carefully, I decided that the solution he proposed
was worse than the problems I experienced, so I haven't pursued
it further.

Anyway, thanks for the reply!

Mike
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