F11 and CD Failure

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 11:37 -0700, Craig White wrote: 
> On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 12:57 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> > I created a new user, shutdown, restarted, logged on to the new user,
> > inserted a different CD and the same symptoms resulted :
> > 
> > lshal -m 
> > 
> > 12:55:21.018: storage_model_CD_224E property
> > storage.removable.media_available = true
> > 12:55:21.044: storage_model_CD_224E property
> > storage.removable.media_size = 603346944 (0x23f65800)
> > 12:55:21.051: storage_model_CD_224E property
> > storage.cdrom.write_speeds
> > = {}
> > 12:55:21.399: volume_label_CD_12 added
> > 
> > 
> > and the cd was not mounted.
> > 
> > Thanks again for your help!!!
> ----
> that all looks good - I don't think it actually mounts until you tell it
> to mount - i.e. I use KDE and KDE uses a widget called 'Device Notifier'
> and it wouldn't mount the inserted CD until you do something like open
> the disk with 'file manager' (Dolphin). I don't know the similar actions
> from GNOME. You might find that the disk is actually available and
> waiting for user instruction to actually 'mount' it.
> 
> Craig
> 
In gnome a data CD mounts automagically and an icon appears on the
desktop. 
> 
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