On 29 April 2008, Alan Bartlett ajb.stxsl at googlemail.com wrote: Tue Apr 29 16:39:45 UTC 2008 <snip>
Having heard my name being mentioned, I'll just say "make the mount point, then". I.e. mkdir /mnt/media Have you checked that /dev/hdc is the optical drive? grep ^hdc /var/log/dmesg
[root@dell1602 ~]# grep ^hdc /var/log/dmesg hdc: DV-516D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: ATAPI 50X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(100) [root@dell1602 ~]#
Then looked at the symbolic links? ls -l /dev/ | grep hdc
[root@dell1602 ~]# ls -l /dev/ | grep hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 29 12:30 cdrom-hdc -> hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 29 12:30 dvd -> hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 29 12:30 dvd-hdc -> hdc brw------- 1 lanny disk 22, 0 Apr 29 12:30 hdc [root@dell1602 ~]#
If the HAL daemon is present and active on the system, inserting a disk into the drive *should* mount it on an autocreated mount point appropriate for the type of medium inserted into the drive or the label - if any - that the disk has been given.
I just updated the hal rpm on the box with the problem and I did a restart of the box after that.
hald (pid 2069) is running...
I don't know if this will be any use - http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/HAL
Alan: I will check that out! Thanks much! Lanny