[hardy] hal floppy access

[marcobra (Marco Braida)]

Using update and upgraded hardy....

When i try to access to floppy from nautilus i get this error:

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Unable to scan Floppy Drive for media changes

Cannot invoke CheckForMedia on HAL: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "CheckForMedia" with signature "" on interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.Removable" doesn't exist

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Thank you

[Gabriel Speckhahn (gabspeck)]

Confirming, this happens when accessing the floppy drive from the Places menu.

[nonnii (nonniithegiant-deactivatedaccount)]

Allso happens to me, when trying to access "CD-RW/DVD+-RW Drive" from Places menu. Allso Gnome doesn't auto-mount dvd's for me, but sees them when I mount them manually. I have

/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

in fstab. After manual mount, Places menu has allso "cdrom" which I can then access.

[nonnii (nonniithegiant-deactivatedaccount)]

I actually got it working for me, kind of.
I played a lot with hald and dbus ( sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart etc.) and managed to fuck up gnome. After restarting X the DVD actually mounted (I think it was automatic). I had removed the /dev/scd0 line from fstab, so gnome mounted it with the DVD-label DVD#1. When ejecting from gnome, and inserting DVD#2 it still gets mounted as DVD#1, and not automatically. I have to access it from nautilus, then it mounts fine (but with wrong label). There allso seems not to be any lock on opening the dvd-bay manually, which I remember being there.

I have needed to log out and back in again couple of times now, but seem to get things working for a little bit again.