On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 15:18 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:41:04PM +0100, Anders Magnusson wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 14:34 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 01:57:14PM +0100, Anders Magnusson wrote: > > > > Got a little further with #2. > > > > > > > > I had an old parameter in lilo.conf (append="hdb=ide-scsi") and after > > > > removing that i can get a /dev/hdb with ide_cd. > > > > > > > > g-v-m still doesn't mount it though, my entry in fstab looks like this: > > > > /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 > > > > 0 > > > > > > Are you in group plugdev ? > > > > Yes. And cdrom and disk. > > Uhm, is this on a dell laptop ? It probably is, because afaik dell is the only > vendor to sell crap that has both the harddisk and the cdrom driver on the > same > ide bus. > > Hal is configured to not poll the cdrom for media on certain dell laptops, > because it kills the ide performance. > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-November/msg00463.html > has > an explanation of why it kills performance. > Yes! It is a Dell Latitude. So this probably explains why it became so slow last time i tried gvm/hal/udev a month ago.
> Sjoerd > PS: You really really don't want a normal user in group disk ever! Fixed! :)
