CD-ROM automount

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jul 13 19:36:32 UTC 2007


On 07/13/2007 04:54 AM, Darryl LeCount wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've posted this issue before with no solution presented with pauses
> of two weeks, so I'm sorry if you've read this already.
> 
> Since upgrading to Feisty I have had nothing but problems with 
> automount. First of all, the CD/DVD would refuse to mount point blank
> as anything except root. And while I have that sorted now and can
> mount and unmount the CD manually from the command line, nothing I do
> sorts the automount out.
> 
> The corresponding line in my fstab looks thus:
> 
> /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
> 
> /etc/init.d/autofs reported an error when started manually, so I had
> to move the CD entry to /etc/auto.master, and the line says:
> 
> cd              -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/hdc
> 
> It now doesn't report an error, but it still doesn't automount
> either. The permissions on my /dev/cdrom and /dev/hdc are fine, as I
> can mount manually from the command line.
> 
> Please help me, as this is really frustrating and is proving a bit of
> a problem to use SoundJuicer to rip my CDs!
> 
> Thanks! Darryl
> 


>From my fstab:
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

Also ensure that you have automount set:
System|Preferences|Removable Drives and Media|Removable Storeage:
check - Mount removable media when inserted.






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