Check to see if you are in the "cdrw" group. Please note, this may not be the actual group name. Just `grep yourname /etc/group*` and compare the results. Also see if the perms on /dev/hdc match those of /dev/hdd.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/23/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">James Richard Tyrer</b> <<a href="mailto:tyrerj@acm.org">tyrerj@acm.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Bruno Castro da Silva wrote:<br>> Hello all,<br>><br>> I have recently installed Kubuntu 5.10 and I'm running KDE 3.4.3. I'm<br>> facing a problem while mounting my drives.<br>><br>> My machine has 2 drives: one which is a CDRW (/dev/hdd) and one wich is
<br>> also a DVD recorder (/dev/hdc).<br>><br>> My /etc/fstab is as follows:<br>><br>> /dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1<br>> /dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
<br>> /dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0<br>> /dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0<br>> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
<br>><br>> If I insert a disk into the DVD recorder, KDE promptly open a window<br>> with media:/hdc and the automount works. Also, an icon appears on my<br>> desktop.<br>><br>> However, if I insert a disk into the CDRW drive, a window with the
<br>> following error appears:<br>><br>> "An error occurred while loading media:/hdd:<br>> The file or folder media:/hdd does not exist."<br>><br>> My /media directory is like this:<br>><br>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2005-12-19 23:34 cdrom -> cdrom0<br>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-12-19 23:34 cdrom0<br>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-12-19 23:34 cdrom1<br>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2005-12-19 23:34 floppy -> floppy0
<br>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-12-19 23:34 floppy0<br>><br>><br>> Can anyone give a hint on how to configure kde, or more specifically the<br>> 'media-ioslave', so that it mounts my CDRW?<br>><br>
> ps: not only it doesn't show the 'media' window for hdd, but it also<br>> does not mount automatically. However, a manual 'mount /media/cdrom0'<br>> works perfectly, but even then the media:/ does not show the drive icon!
<br>><br>><br>> Any ideias, please? I've googled around and read the kde mailing list<br>> but nothing helped.<br><br>Your fstab is wrong. I don't know if that is the cause of the problem:<br><br> > /dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 auto udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
<br> > /dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 auto udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0<br><br>I don't know right off what "udf" does. I have:<br><br> defaults,ro,noauto,users,unhide<br><br>for my CD-ROM, naturally if it is "rw" you would change "ro" to "rw" (or
<br>just remove it since "rw" is the default). So you would have:<br><br>/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 auto defaults,noauto,users,unhide 0 0<br><br>I don't know if this change would make it work.<br><br>Some research indicates that UDF is another CD format so if your Kernel
<br> has it and you need it you should probably add that as well.<br><br>--<br>JRT<br><br><br>___________________________________________________<br>This message is from the kde mailing list.<br>Account management: <a href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde">
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