Re: Automounting floppies

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Jeff Kinz wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'm trying to setup a system which will automount floppies if they are
> in the drive.
> 
> I'm looking for the same behavior which cd-roms have.  IE whenever the
> media is inserted in the drive, konqueror pops up on the drive.
> 
> I have the automounter running and I have entries for floppies in the 
> /etc/autofs.* files  but I'm not getting the same results.
> 
> Obviously I'm missing something. :-)  (No cheap shots please :-) )
> 
> I have managed to turn off the this feature for my cdrom and
> I'm wondering where the control for it is?
> 
> I'm running KDE.
> 
> Does anyone have a clue to offer me about this?
> 


My first guess is that there is no mechanism in place that notifies the 
O/S or window manager that a floppy has been inserted.  Unlike MAC or Sun 
systems that I've worked with.  It would seem that the automounter would 
have to constantly probe the drive to see if a disk is there.