Could some of you check your CDROM optimizations with hdparm ? I am wondering if FC3 kernels are optimizing them properly. It might be a udev thing. See/reply to the "k3b: poor CDROM performance... " thread. Sorry for intruding on your thread. On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 10:24 -0500, Terry Polzin wrote: > The latest udev update seems to allow only root access to /media/usbdisk. > Although a mortal user can mount the device. Even an ls -l to the mounted dev > fails for the mortal user. > -- Kim Lux (Mr.) Diesel Research Inc