I have a Cowon IAUDIO X5 30GB MP3 player, and wish to use gnome-volume-manager to add music to it. But for some reason, even though it mounts as read/write, as indicated by /etc/mtab, when I try to add music, it says I do not have permissions to write to this folder, even though in properties it says I do have the permissions, and when i try to change the permissions for other users, or groups, it says it can't be changed because it is read-only. KDE has no trouble at all doing any of this, and I might have to end up falling back to that. So I suppose my question has 2 parts. First of all, is there a way to prevent it from doing the read only bit? and if there isn't a way, can you change the default automounter in gnome to the KDE one?

Galeru

I don't understand much things you said but i know your problem
You should edit file /etc/fstab into this form

As you see, We add 2 options (users,rw) in this line. And when you need mount your player. You type this

And then you can create, edit, move file in player

Certainly you don't mount CDROM Driver as this example