Unable to automount CD/DVD's?

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#1

Hi All,

Only noticed this a few days ago & it only affects CD/DVD’s, USB drives automount just fine.

After doing lots of searching, noticed that a lot of people are having this issue too. Only didn’t work out how to resolve this annoying behaviour.

When I burn a CD/DVD K3b accepts that I have valid media & proceeds to burn, when the disc has been burnt out it pops. So I re-insert the disc & no automounting?

I have put myself in the ‘cdrom’ & ‘disk’ groups, just to ensure it wasn’t something I’d not done. It was working fine last time I checked, so don’t think it’s that.

Any ideas/pointers?

Many thanks for all advice given.

#2

So you are using the most recent KDE version and I have no way to know if this might be the problem or not, but I did a thread on the optical drive naming which could be the issue with the **/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules file. **Here is the thread:

Multimedia Optical Drive Naming (ie /dev/dvd & /dev/cdrom) Howto in opneSUSE

You could delete (or move) this file and reboot and it should be recreated for you. Normally, you don’t need to edit the file unless you have two or more optical drives. However, if you have changed optical drives around, it can get messed up. I have made this suggestion a few times, but so far no one has come back and said it helped or did anything at all. So, please let me know if this might be the source of the problem or not. Keep a copy of your original file should this be it so we can see what the problem is.

Thank You,

#3

Hi James,

Renamed the ‘70-persistent-cd.rules’ file to ‘70-persistent-cd.oldrules’ & rebooted.

Yes a new file (70-persistent-cd.rules) is created, unfortunately doesn’t resolve this issue.

I mean after I’ve burnt a CD/DVD I have to ask my wife (who has an XP box) to check if my discs can be read alright:shame:

Thanks.

#4

Try plugging something in that is recognised and then right clicking on the Knotify icon; you will get an option to access the settings and you can configure its behaviour. Unfortunately, this option only becomes active when something is plugged.

#5

john hudson wrote:

>
> Try plugging something in that is recognised and then right clicking on
> the Knotify icon; you will get an option to access the settings and you
> can configure its behaviour. Unfortunately, this option only becomes
> active when something is plugged.

I’ve got an even deeper problem (11.3, x86_64, KDE4) with the automount so
there is more to it than this. If I have a CD in the drive when booting,
the CD is mounted but will NEVER successfully umount when removed. trying to
unmount the automount CD results in notification that a file is open and the
umount failed. If I ignore the failed automount and do a manual mount of a
different (or the same) CD, the notifier STILL shows a busy status trying to
unmount the automounted CD which no longer shows in /media where it was
mounted during the boot.

If I boot with an empty CDROM drive, no CDROM I insert is mounted - period.
I can mount /dev/sr0 and get access, but this is becoming a real PITA!

–
Will Honea