CDs/DVDs do not automount

**JoeMac42** · May 10th, 2010

Now that I can successfully load the media, I would like to figure out how to get a DVD or CD to automount in Lucid on my Dual-G4 PowerPC Mac. Right now I have to use the "mount" command in terminal to successfully mount the media. lshw identifies the drive as a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-105. My other, less unusual (i.e. Cannonical supported) Lucid installs just pop an icon onto the desktop and within nautilus and for video-DVDs they even open up VLC for me and bring up the DVD menu.

**JoeMac42** · May 11th, 2010

This is getting odd. I just plugged in the external cd/dvd usb drive from my hp mini 311 into my mac g4 and both cds and dvds automount from there. Still no joy from the internal atapi Pioneer drive...maybe I need to try editing fstab...any ideas?

**linuxopjemac** · May 11th, 2010

When I have the time I will have a look into this issue. I have Lucid Lynx running too now.

**linuxopjemac** · May 11th, 2010

On my PowerBook G3 Pismo, automounting works out of the box. In my fstab there is no entry for cdrom. I don't have a Pioneer though, I have:

[ 5.667210] Probing IDE interface ide2...
[ 6.066974] hde: MATSHITA CR-175, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[ 6.402944] hde: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
[ 6.403057] hde: MWDMA2 mode selected
[ 6.403233] ide2 at 0xe9062000-0xe9062070,0xe9062160 on irq 23
[ 6.403481] ide-gd driver 1.18
[ 6.403612] hda: max request size: 512KiB
[ 6.830946] hda: 78242976 sectors (40060 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63
[ 6.831399] hda: cache flushes supported
[ 6.831728] hda: [mac] hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 hda5 hda6 hda7
[ 6.839981] ide-cd driver 5.00
[ 6.842418] ide-cd: hde: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
[ 6.842447] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20

It seems to only affect the Pioneer drive ?

I can recommend Debian with LXDE Mint, it also looks good and it will probably work better with respect to automounting CDROMS.

**JoeMac42** · May 12th, 2010

I think I'll stick with Ubuntu for now. I'm loading up Debian/LXDE on a netbook, so if I like it I might consider eventually going the Mint route. Right now I'm thinking this is some sort of kernel module or udev thing, so I'm not sure changing distributions would necessarily help.