Automatic mounting of CD on Mandrake 10
 

Hello. I've installed Mdk10 and now face the following problem. In Mdk9.1 cd's were detected automatically and I wasn't required to manually mount/umount them.
However, on Mdk10 this is no longer true. I tried all options, tried switching "supermount" in drakconf on and off but to no effect. Please, help me enable this automount!
(Note: I didn't turn any installed services off! And 'autofs' package is installed!)

In my system the CD is detected automatically.

My /etc/fstab is this:

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
Check if yours is different.
I hope it help you.

Mine is the same! But I have to mount it manually!

Magicdev is the default (I believe) automounting daemon in Mandrake 10,
Supermount is still available if you prefer to use that. ( default for previous mandrakes)

I had problems on one machine with magic dev locking up the drives, yet it works perfectly on other machines. The machine with problems with magic dev works fine with Supermount. I suspect you may have to just use a little trial and error.

I do not know how to disable magicdev other than uninstalling it, which is what I did.

Supermount can be enabled with
# supermount -i enable
# mount -a

and to disable
# supermount -i disable

I hope that helps a little.

Thanks for answering! It seems that I didn't install magicdev, because I didn't know what it's for. Now I've installed it.

I figured it out!
 

Here is my story:

Well after I compiled my 2.6.7 kernel then the auto mount stopped working. I noticed that magicdev was running but did not seem to be working since there was no CD icon.

It turns out that I needed to upgrade to magicdev version 1.1.6 and now the CD seems to auto mount again

Here is my fstab line:

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0

Try running magicdev --version

magicdev
 

google search tells me magicdev = A GNOME daemon for automatically mounting/playing CDs

1. does it work on KDE ?
2. Is it for data cds ? (audio cds don't seem to need to be mounted)

Thanx for the help (i'm real new at this and i'm at work so i can't check right now)

Re: magicdev
 

Yes MagicDev works under KDE. However on my MDK 10 PP when right clicking to unmout sometimes it fails. A second attempt then throws up an error saying drive busy. I tracked this problem down to a 'hidden' instance of Konqueror running. Killing this off (I use KDE System Guard) removes the problem and allows for the drive to be unmounted. You can override this by simply pressing the eject button on the drive, should you do this without unmouting your Syslog will fill up with errors from the CD quicker than something that fills up really fast !!

Not really sure about the audio cd bit as I don't play them on my PC (don't have the audio cable connected)

HTH anyway.

thanx
 

thanx for the answer.. i'll try that.. no audio cable here either.. just set up xmms to audio extraction

I hope i can get this mounting issue set up.. my girlfriend really can't use the mount command...

See ya

Re: thanx
 

:D She's not the only one I hate it !!

Personally I prefer Supermount (see earlier in thread) but I have got used to MagicDev now so I'll live with it. Used Supermount in 9/9.1/9.2 and it worked brill - far simpler but some people had problems, just like with any other piece of software I suppose :)