FC6 not automounting cd/dvd

[pjeeanah]

New install of FC6 was automounting only some cds and dvds. After updating autofs,nautilus etc, no cds or dvds are being automounted. Manual mounting works fine. I run several versions of fedora on the same test machine. FC5 automounts the cds and dvds with no problem on the machine.

Any clues? Any information would be welcome.

[sideways]

yup, I have noticed this too, although automounting seems intermittent with my drive, so I assume it's a firmware issue with the btc ide1006 dvdrw (I have eject problems too). Someone posted about this problem with fc5 and came up with a slightly dodgy solution of installing an older version of HAL,
http://forum.fedoraforum.org/showthr...2&page=1&pp=15

[sideways]

You can also add the mount info to /etc/fstab, something like this for a dvd drive (create the /mnt/dvd directory first)

/dev/dvdrw /mnt/dvd auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

and then reboot

edit
/dev/dvdrw is just a softlink to the 'real' device /dev/hdc or similar, so you can replace with that if you prefer. I remember having to do this as far back as FC3, so don't know if it's hardware specific, you should't have to mount removable media in fstab

[pjeeanah]

Thanks sideways. The problem, I think is actually with fedora 6, as I said the automount works with fedora 5 on the same machine. However, I'll apply your solution. Happy new year!