[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#573135: devicekit-disks: fails to mount the read-only fake CD-ROM partition of my external harddisk

[Fabian Greffrath]

Package: devicekit-disks
Version: 009-3
Severity: normal

Hi,

as already reported in #564854, I've got a "Western Digital My Passport Essential 500GB Black" external harddisk drive, that includes a separate fake CD-ROM partition to hold the proprietary "WD SmartWare Software". When I plug in the device, dmesg reports that both a new CD-ROM drive and a new harddisk have been found and registered as /dev/sr1 and /dev/sdb1 respectively:

 usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
 usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=1058, idProduct=070a
 usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
 usb 2-2: Product: My Passport 070A
 usb 2-2: Manufacturer: Western Digital
 usb 2-2: SerialNumber: 575841304139394E35323837
 usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
 scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
 usb-storage: device found at 3
 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
 usb-storage: device scan complete
 scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access     WD       My Passport 070A 1030 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
 scsi 5:0:0:1: CD-ROM            WD       Virtual CD 070A  1030 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
 scsi 5:0:0:2: Enclosure         WD       SES Device       1030 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
 sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
 sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 975400960 512-byte logical blocks: (499 GB/465 GiB)
 sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 51x/51x caddy
 sr 5:0:0:1: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
 sr 5:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5
 ses 5:0:0:2: Attached Enclosure device
 ses 5:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 13
 sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
 sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 10 00
 sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
  sdb: sdb1
 sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk

However, only the harddisk part of the device (i.e. /dev/sdb1) is automatically mounted; the CD-ROM part doesn't even show up in Nautilus' computer:/// view. It does show up in Palimsest though, so I am asking why the partition isn't automatically mounted (as e.g. in Windows XP) as well.

Cheers,
Fabian

PS: Feel free to ask if you need additional information, some can even be found in my initial bug report in #564854.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (550, 'unstable'), (400, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages devicekit-disks depends on:
ii  libatasmart4      0.17+git20100219-1     ATA S.M.A.R.T. reading and parsing
ii  libc6             2.10.2-6               Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3       1.2.20-2               simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2  0.84-1                 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0      2.22.4-1               The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgudev-1.0-0    151-2                  GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libparted1.8-12   1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-6 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii  libpolkit-backend 0.96-1                 PolicyKit backend API
ii  libpolkit-gobject 0.96-1                 PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libsgutils2-2     1.28-2                 utilities for working with generic
ii  libudev0          151-2                  libudev shared library
ii  udev              151-2                  /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages devicekit-disks recommends:
ii  dosfstools               3.0.9-1         utilities for making and checking 
ii  hdparm                   9.27-2          tune hard disk parameters for high
ii  mtools                   4.0.12-1        Tools for manipulating MSDOS files
ii  ntfs-3g                  1:2010.1.16-0.1 read-write NTFS driver for FUSE
ii  ntfsprogs                2.0.0-1+b1      tools for doing neat things in NTF
ii  policykit-1              0.96-1          framework for managing administrat

Versions of packages devicekit-disks suggests:
pn  cryptsetup                    <none>     (no description available)
pn  mdadm                         <none>     (no description available)
pn  reiserfsprogs                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  xfsprogs                      <none>     (no description available)

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