FC3 rc2 issues

[Timothy Sandel]

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 13:59 -0500, Timothy Sandel wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 13:27 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 10:06 -0500, Timothy Sandel wrote:
> > > 3. SCSI dvdrom is now correctly recognized, but "/media/dvdrom"
> > 
> > Timothy, try to put this
> > 
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
> > <deviceinfo version="0.2">
> >   <device>
> >     <match key="storage.bus" string="scsi">
> >       <match key="storage.drive_type" string="cdrom">
> >         <merge key="storage.policy.should_mount" type="bool">true</merge>
> >       </match>
> >     </match>
> >   </device>
> > </deviceinfo>
> > 
> > in a file called scsi-cdrom.fdi in the /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy
> > directory and restart the haldaemon ('service haldaemon restart'). Does
> > that make things work?
> > 
When I rebooted it did work.  The "/media/cdrom" directory was created
and an fstab entry for added.  I wonder why the restart of the haldaemon
didn't do the trick.

> Nope.  Not a really big deal.  I manually created an fstab entry and
> mount point for the dvd.  Just no automount.  A little added info.  I
> have a dvd-writer on /dev/hdc also.
> 
> Thanks for your input though.
> 
> > The thing is, we don't automatically put in entries for SCSI devices
> > since they may not be close to the computer (e.g. iSCSI); we might want
> > to relax that a bit in the default policy - Alan, does this sound sane
> > to you?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > David
> > 
>