Thunar/DBUS - floppy support.

[Benedikt Meurer]

nuser wrote:
> This is the message from HAL ml. --------------
> 
>> I'm using Debian Etch, hal 0.5.7-2, dbus 0.62-4. I was told on the
>> Thunar mailing list (file manager based on gtk2) that it can
>> automatically mount devices which HAL tells the volume for that
>> device. Of course it doesn't find a volume there, there is no
>> floppy disk, the same happens with the cdrom drive, usb port. But,
>> when I plug a pendrive or insert a cdrom, an object for each volume
>> inside the device is created, right? When I insert a disk on the
>> cdrom drive:
>> 
>> DeviceAdded, udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_label_MYFILES
>> 
>> How can I solve this? Where sits the "problem" for no being able to
>> have hal to tell when I insert a disk on the floppy drive? Not even
>> when I mounted the disk, restarted hald, the volume was not listed.
>> 
>> 
> 
> "There is no feasble way to probe for media on standard PC floppy
> drive, so HAL adds mount methods to storage device itself, not
> volumes. Your volume manager should present you with a representation
> of unmounted floppy and let you manually mount and unmount it. This
> is the same way other OS work too.
> 
> - -andrey" --------------
> 
> Makes sense, did you ever inserted a disk on a legacy floppy drive
> and it showed up on thunar, like happens with the cdrom? Unfortunally
> it didnt here =|.

I have no floppy disk drive in my Linux box. Can you send me a dump with
the HAL properties of the associated devices?

Benedikt