KDE Volume Manager not receiving mount points from HAL - it can't cope!

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 08:46:16AM +0200, David Zeuthen wrote:

> > >  so has_removable_media will get set to TRUE.
> > > 
> > >  ... only to have it set to FALSE because there's no entry
> > >  /sys/block/sdb/removable in order to be read
> 
> You need a more recent kernel to get the removable file in sysfs. Before

 urk - 2.6.7 doesn't cut it??  urk.

> >  the only bit that's weird - and probably my own fault - is that
> >  uhm... KVM shows an entry for "floppy" _and_ an entry for "USB-FDU".
> > 
> >  is _this_ what you were referring to about "volumes"?
> >
> >  namely that even a floppy can contain volumes and should not be
> >  treated differently from other storage devices (which at present
> >  it looks like it is: in KVM there is no link from the
> >  usb floppy device block_8_0 to the volume).
> > 
> 
> Yeah, exactly. Possibly KVM is treating this as two devices?
 
 yes.  yuk.

 how would it be told to stop doing that?

 the only link between the "floppy" entry and its volume "USB-FDU"
 is the parent udi - "info.parent" or something.

 ta,

 l.

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