I did everything on the page that told how to access the drive except for creating the desktop icons, but it doesn't work.
http://www.bsdguides.org/guides/free...e_cd_icons.php
It seems that this procedure creates a folder for the cdrom in your home folder and icons on the desktop.
However although this would give me access to the drive it is not precisely what I was looking for.
I'd rather not have the folder in there if it isn't necessary. I didn't create the desktop icons because I didn't want them either, however it gives no access to the drive in the folder in any case. It's empty when a cd is in the drive.
What I was hoping to do was to get it to give me access to the drive under "Storage Media" on the "Services" or "System" tabs in Konqueror. Unfortunately it still doesn't do that either, and returns the error "Feature only available with Hal" when I try to access it from there.
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