Yup that worked. Even inbuilt CD/DVD drive automounted with audio disk
already in drive. when opened the drive was demounted as expected, and
automounted again on re-insertion. problem solved !!

On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 19:25 +0000, Uwe Geuder wrote:
> It appears to me that the patch in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/+bug/539515/comments/109
> fixes also this problem.
> 
> After having installed the udisks package from the PPA both my external
> optical drive and my mobile phone with USB mass storage get mounted
> automatically.
> 
> Couldn't test my internal optical drive now, because I have moved it to
> another machine for the time being.
> 
> If the other people affected could please test the proposed udisks patch
> and comfirm that it helps we could mark this report here as a duplicate
> of  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/539515
> 
> -- 
> Removable media (CD/DVD/USB drives) will not automount
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/584052
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> 
> Status in “udev” package in Ubuntu: New
> 
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: udev
> 
> A DVD or CD will not automount when installed in the internal ATAPI drvie within Lucid on my Dual-G4 PowerPC Mac. This functioned fine in Jaunty and quite working after a clean install of Lucid.  It continues to function fine when I boot into OS X.  Right now in Lucid I have to use the "mount" command in terminal to successfully mount removable media. lshw identifies the drive as an Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-105. Previously in Jaunty, inserting a DVD or CD would automount the media with an icon onto the desktop and within nautilus and for video-DVDs it would open up VLC for me and bring up a DVD menu. I can plug an external USB CD/DVD/RW drive into the PowerPC Mac and it works fine (automounts CDs/DVDs, opens appropriate player, etc.). It just doesn't seem to work with the internal ATAPI Pioneer CD/DVD/RW.
> 
> Here is some additional information:
> 
> $lshw -C disk
>   *-cdrom
>        description: DVD writer
>        product: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-105
>        vendor: Pioneer
>        physical id: 0
>        bus info: ide@2.0
>        logical name: /dev/hde
>        version: A506
>        serial: BLDL003037WL
>        capabilities: packet atapi cdrom removable nonmagnetic dma lba iordy pm audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
>        configuration: status=ready
>      *-medium
>           physical id: 0
>           logical name: /dev/hde
>   *-disk:0
>        description: ATA Disk
>        product: Hitachi HDP725050GLAT80
>        vendor: Hitachi
>        physical id: 0
>        bus info: ide@0.0
>        logical name: /dev/hda
>        version: GM4OA4CA
>        serial: GE1540RJ39312A
>        size: 465GiB (500GB)
>        capabilities: ata dma lba iordy smart security pm apm partitioned partitioned:mac
>        configuration: apm=off smart=on
>   *-disk:1
>        description: ATA Disk
>        product: IBM-IC35L120AVV207-1
>        vendor: IBM
>        physical id: 1
>        bus info: ide@0.1
>        logical name: /dev/hdb
>        version: V2SBA63A
>        serial: VNVD33G4GJXN9T
>        size: 114GiB (122GB)
>        capacity: 114GiB (122GB)
>        capabilities: ata dma lba iordy smart security pm apm partitioned partitioned:mac
>        configuration: apm=off mode=udma5 smart=on
> 
> $cat /etc/fstab
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
> # for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
> # devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
> #
> # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
> proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
> # / was on /dev/hdb3 during installation
> UUID=a8aff40d-da4a-4df8-bd7a-16429346febd / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
> # swap was on /dev/hdb4 during installation
> UUID=e46145fe-0b54-491c-9008-fc5fe0d5c4fb none swap sw 0 0
> 
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: udev 151-12
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-powerpc-smp 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-powerpc-smp ppc
> Architecture: powerpc
> CustomUdevRuleFiles: z80_user.rules
> Date: Fri May 21 21:14:35 2010
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release powerpc (20100428)
> ProcCmdLine: root=/dev/hdb3 ro quiet splash
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANG=en_US.utf8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: udev
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