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Gorf

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Registered: 2020-10-07

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Stuck automounting a USB blu-ray drive

I've got a blu-ray drive that has been very reliable for me in past other distro installations so I want to get it going on my Arch install. I'm a little stuck.  My laptop is a ThinkPad W530 and so far everything has installed and is running great.  I've installed xfce4 as it's what I have used a lot.  I installed syslog-ng to have some local logs, and when I connect the external drive via USB I can see it is detected:

Nov 24 22:24:53 whooter systemd[1]: Reloading D-Bus System Message Bus.
Nov 24 22:24:53 whooter dbus-daemon[411]: [system] Reloaded configuration
Nov 24 22:24:53 whooter dbus-send[1929]: method return time=1606285493.411445 sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> destination=:1.108 serial=3 reply_serial=2
Nov 24 22:24:53 whooter systemd[1]: Reloaded D-Bus System Message Bus.
Nov 24 22:25:00 whooter kernel: usb 4-1: new SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd
Nov 24 22:25:00 whooter kernel: usb 4-1: New USB device found, idVendor=174c, idProduct=55aa, bcdDevice= 1.00
Nov 24 22:25:00 whooter kernel: usb 4-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1
Nov 24 22:25:00 whooter kernel: usb 4-1: Product: ASMT1153E
Nov 24 22:25:00 whooter kernel: usb 4-1: Manufacturer: asmedia
Nov 24 22:25:00 whooter kernel: usb 4-1: SerialNumber: 201712000558
Nov 24 22:25:00 whooter kernel: usb-storage 4-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
Nov 24 22:25:00 whooter kernel: usb-storage 4-1:1.0: Quirks match for vid 174c pid 55aa: 400000
Nov 24 22:25:00 whooter kernel: scsi host6: usb-storage 4-1:1.0
Nov 24 22:25:01 whooter kernel: scsi 6:0:0:0: CD-ROM            HL-DT-ST BD-RE  WH14NS40  1.03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
Nov 24 22:25:01 whooter kernel: sr 6:0:0:0: [sr1] scsi3-mmc drive: 153x/204x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray

Buuut, I can't seem to get it to mount automatically within xfce.  So I was reading the Udisks article as well as the Optical Disk Drive. But I think I'm not understanding what I should be doing next. I can definitely mount the device using the udisksctl command, but then other apps don't seem to see it. Specifically makemkv.

Oddly enough, I can't seem to get it to automount the built in dvd rom in the laptop either regardless of what I put in like audio disk, data disk, movie, etc. So I think I am missing something fundamental.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,361

Re: Stuck automounting a USB blu-ray drive

For automounting within xfce you need to read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Th … me_Manager but that doesn't really answer the "doesn't seem to see" it when mounting with udiskctl. What does that mean? Check the output of mount for the actual device path of the mounted disk if that's what's needed to pass to other tools.