On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 06:14:47PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: > SUCCESS! with: > > mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom > > That worked with a CDR I wrote. > > I was suspicious that this reallly fixed it, then unmounted and tried > > mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom Bingo. Ok I am enlightened. this one isn't actually hal's fault. > What next? Can I configure the hal or udev to get this right? Perhaps. The problem is that some of the other file system code looks at the _end_ of the disk. Unfortunately CD-R doesn't have an "end" it sort of tails out into no-mans land. Most drives politely handle such requests, some don't. The ide-scsi driver has the needed magic to work around some of this, ide-cd lacks it. The HAL fix I guess would be to only try iso9660/udf on CD-R/CD-RW media, but it might ultimately be better if we can fix it kernel side.