On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 11:58:50PM -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > Hal doesnt mount anything by itself.... > maybe you are refering to gnome-volume-manager, which interacts with > hal to mount storage devices and deal with removable media when > inserted.. assuming you are running gnome. My understanding is, at Hal polls devices and that is enough to screw up USB burners sometimes, to break ide burns if there are two drives on the same bus one burning one being probed, and other stuff.