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+<sect1 id="removable-disks">
+
+<sect1info>
+<authorgroup>
+<author>
+<firstname>Edward</firstname>
+<surname>Haven</surname>
+<email>[email protected]</email>
+</author>
+</authorgroup>
+</sect1info>
+
+<title>Removable Disks</title>
+
+<para>For &kde; to use any device, removable or not, the device must
+first be mounted. When a device is mounted, &kde; gets all the needed
+information about the device: how to read it, how to write information to
+it, and much more.</para>
+
+<para>The use of a device is controlled by the operating
+system and it is important your operating system has tools for managing
+these devices. &kde; can also auto mount devices, working with
+<acronym>HAL</acronym> (Hardware Abstraction Layer). Your distribution
+should have set up <acronym>HAL</acronym> automatically; if not,
+consult the documentation provided by your distribution.</para>
+<para>There are several ways to find the list of media devices: use
+whichever one suits you best:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>
+<para>Enter <userinput>media:/</userinput> or
+<userinput>system:/media</userinput> into the &konqueror; location bar.</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>Navigate to it by clicking on the <guilabel>Services</guilabel>
+tab in &konqueror;'s Navigation Panel, then selecting <guilabel>Storage
+Media</guilabel>.</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>Select <menuchoice><guimenu>Go</guimenu><guimenuitem>Storage Media</guimenuitem>
+</menuchoice> from the &konqueror; menus.</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+<para>Click the <guilabel>System</guilabel> desktop icon, then from
+the window that appears, click on <guilabel>Storage
+Media</guilabel>.</para>
+</listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
+
+
+<para>The <guilabel>Storage Media</guilabel> location (also known as
+the media:/ protocol) will show all devices which are recognized by
+&kde;, including the hard drive and &CD; and <acronym>DVD</acronym>
+drives, as well as <acronym>USB</acronym> and Firewire devices,
+provided that your distribution is set up correctly to tell &kde;
+about them.</para>
+
+
+ <para>You can also setup &kde; to display a device icon
+on the desktop. To start or configure this feature in the &kcontrolcenter; go
+to
+<menuchoice><guilabel>Desktop</guilabel><guilabel>Behavior</guilabel></menuchoice>
+and select the <guilabel>Device Icons</guilabel> Tab. The device icon action
+can be used to show both mounted and unmounted devices, or to only create an
+icon when media is detected and automounted (only if automount is properly
+configured), by not checking the unmounted boxes.</para>
+
+<sect2 id="automounting">
+<title>Automount</title>
+
+<para>With &kde; 3.5 and newer, devices can be automounted, meaning one only
+has to insert the removable disk. &kde; will then open an automount prompt
+asking the user <quote>What do you want to do?</quote> with the media. To
+configure the list of options prompted for devices open the &kcontrolcenter; and
+navigate to <menuchoice><guilabel>Peripherals</guilabel><guilabel>Storage
+Media</guilabel></menuchoice>. Here you can add and remove programs from the
+list of devices.</para>
+
+<para>The automount feature will only work if
+<application>dbus</application>, <application>hal</application> and
+<application>udev</application> are installed and the kernel is properly
+configured. To find out if they are running on your system check the
+<guilabel>Process Table</guilabel> in &ksysguard; for:
+<command>hald</command>, <command>dbus-deamon</command>, and
+<command>udevd</command>. &kde; does not provide any of these
+components. You must check with you distribution.</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<title>Related Information</title>
+<listitem><para><ulink url="http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=DBUS">HOWTO: setting up D-BUS and HAL with KDE's media ioslave
+edit</ulink> (A community maintained HOWTO on the &kde; wiki)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus">The DBus page</ulink></para></listitem>
+<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal"></ulink>HAL - Hardware Abstraction Layer</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 id="mounting-removable-disks">
+<title>Mounting</title>
+
+<para>If your system does not automount, &kde; is configured to mount and
+unmount devices which the current user has permission to mount. If a device
+is mounted as the root partition (&ie; <literal>/</literal>), and you log in
+to &kde; as a user, &kde; can not mount or unmount it without being given a
+higher permission. To check a devices mount permission see the
+<filename>/etc/fstab</filename> file.</para>
+
+<para>To mount and unmount devices manually in &kde; one only has to &RMB;
+click the device icon in media:/ or on the desktop and select
+<guimenuitem>Mount</guimenuitem> or <guimenuitem>Unmount</guimenuitem>, for
+removable devices one can also unmount with <guimenuitem>Safely Remove</guimenuitem>. &kde; still requires the device to be setup in
+/etc/fstab.</para>
+</sect2>
+
+
+
+
+</sect1>
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