CD-ROM and floppy handling

[Toralf Lund <toralf kscanners com>]

Letting GNOME mount CD-ROMs and floppy disks is all very fine when the
desktop is actually running, but I also want to be able to access the
drives when nobody is logged in, so I've configured automount to take
care of these devices, which creates a conflict. Is there any way to
integrate these two mechanisms? And how exactly does GNOME detect that a
floppy disk or CD is inserted, anyway? Does it use some kind of a
daemon, and could this be run independently of GNOME?
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