Could some of you check your CDROM optimizations with hdparm ? I am wondering if FC3 kernels are optimizing them properly. It might be a udev thing. See/reply to the "k3b: poor CDROM performance... " thread.
Sorry for intruding on your thread.
On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 10:24 -0500, Terry Polzin wrote:
The latest udev update seems to allow only root access to /media/usbdisk. Although a mortal user can mount the device. Even an ls -l to the mounted dev fails for the mortal user.