Removable media and Ubuntu.

        Next up on the "what am I doing wrong" block. I've never used a distro
with "automount" before, and I wanted my experience to be as easy as
possible. When I popped a DVD into the external USB DVDRW I connected
to my machine, it let me know to watch or browse it fine (although
Kaffeine failed to play it, and I had to use mplayer).

        Next, I removed the disc and threw in an Ubuntu disc. This time I
chose the browse option. After loading a few files, I closed the Konq
window and hit eject on the drive. This time, no disc popped out. Hmm.
  On my Mac, I would just drag the disc image on my desktop to the dock
(where the trash can icon would turn into an Eject logo). Alternately,
I would just umount /cdrom -- but I did not want to use the command line.

        There was no icon on my desktop. When I try to use Konq, there is a
"devices" tab on the side, but clicking it says, "protocol devices not
supported" which means nothing to me. I browsed to /media/cdrom and
right-clicked it. The closest option was move to trash. However, that
didn't do at all what I wanted ;p (I'm surprised that Konq can't detect
what is a mount point from /etc/mtab and add an eject option -- it'd be
dead simple; I could probably make a patch for it in an afternoon).

        So now I'm SOL. I could flip the power on the drive, but that's not an
option for internal drives, nor the correct way to do it. What am I
missing, Conrad?
Received on Tue May 16 01:45:20 2006