Cd won't mount normally in fc10

[Partha]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 02:10:37PM -1000, Dave Burns wrote:
> Is there some message I should be seeing in dmesg or /var/log/messages that
> would tell me that what is screwed up?
> 

if hal is able to mount removable drives automatically it logs them into /var/log/messages. Did you get any messages in there after you put in the cd drive i.e something about any error ?