[PLUG] HAL vs /etc/fstab

[Larry W]

Rich Shepard wrote:
>  I'm trying to understand what's going on here. With /dev/cdrom
>  included in /etc/fstab trying to mount the drive fails because it
>  cannot find any media in the tray. It's there, of course. If I
>  comment out the /dev/cdrom line and let HAL mount it, I'm told that
>  the drive doesn't exist in fstab or mtab so it cannot be mounted.
>
>  But, if I su to root and issue 'mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom' it works.
>
>  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.

Rich, use the noauto option in your fstab entry.  Here's what I have:

/dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0

Regards,
Larry