On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 15:03 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 01 May 2008, John jses27 at gmail.com wrote: > > Alan: Thank you for all of the ideas you've had in this thread! I strongly suspect that your > > idea of replacing the Teac CD/DVD-ROM with something else, is the only way to end this problem. My belief > > now is that there is no support to auto mount a DVD in that Teac drive, in CentOS 5. Probably, when it was > > my box and it worked OK, it was with a prior release of CentOS or Fedora Core and something has changed > > and the auto mount support for that drive (for DVD media) was removed. I rarely use Windoze, but it was very helpful, to be able to test the same > > CD/DVD-ROM drive and verify that it works perfectly under Windoze. I was able to mount the DVD in a terminal and install the RPM I wanted to > > install OK, so that also makes me believe the drive is OK. Lanny > > > >Something I don't think no one has thought of: > > >[root at ethan ~]# rpm -qa | grep auto > >automake15-1.5-16 > >autoconf-2.59-12 > >automake17-1.7.9-7 > >automake-1.9.6-2.1 > >automake16-1.6.3-8 > >automake14-1.4p6-13 > >autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.55.el5.3 > > >Make sure you autofs installed: autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.55.el5.3 > > I'm on my box now, but I'm sure it will be exactly the same on my daughters box, the one with the problem. > Immediately after I updated her box, I updated mine. > > [lanny at dell2400 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep auto > autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.55.el5.3 > [lanny at dell2400 ~]$ > > >Other than that, that's about all.... > > I suspect Alan is correct and that the only solution to this mystery is to buy a new > drive. About 6 months ago, I bought an LG DVD Burner for my wife's box and it works fine. > Yea, I think you have tried everything under the sun. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- ~/john OpenPGP Sig:BA91F079