On Saturday 29 December 2001 11:09, martin f krafft wrote: > yo! > > i've seen it done before, but i can't remember how. i believe it was > a gnome feature, but there's got to be a way to do this underneath > any desktop environment... when i insert a CDROM, i want it to be > available without having to mount. conversely, i always want to be > able to just eject without umount. how can one enable this? any > docs/links/howtos?
I'm sure it's a kernel feature. I first saw it on Mandrake. I disabled it because I've heard somebody say that it actually slows down the system. Watch the cdrom's lights intermittently blink. -- Sir Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
