[PLUG] HAL vs /etc/fstab

Tim tim-pdxlug at sentinelchicken.org
Wed Feb 18 18:40:23 UTC 2009


>    What the HAL is going on? It won't automount with HAL, and it will no
> longer allow me as a peon user to mount the drive.
> 
>    The cdrw drive behaves, by the way.

Typically /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd are just symlinks to some /dev/hd?
device.  You might want to double check that it does indeed point to
/dev/hdd.  This could have changed if you swapped out your drive with
another or hooked it up as a slave rather than a master on the secondary
ATA cable, etc.

HTH,
tim



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