Disable auto-mount for specific disk

elgatito · September 9, 2017 at 2:47 PM

Hello.

I have an external WD drive which includes "WD Startware" disk. And it's mounted as DVD drive ( /dev/sr0 ).

How can I disable auto-mounting for that specific device?

Why I need it - because Kodi thinks I have a dvd player plugged in and so showing "DVD/CD" menu item and so on.

**vpeter** · September 9, 2017 at 3:24 PM

This could help you: [solved] prevent OpenELEC5/Kodi14 from auto-mount partitions - Raspberry Pi Forums

elgatito · September 9, 2017 at 5:34 PM

Quote from vpeter

This could help you: [solved] prevent OpenELEC5/Kodi14 from auto-mount partitions - Raspberry Pi Forums

Thanks. That helped to avoid mount and no entry in /media/ being created. But still Kodi thinks I have a dvd drive and adds "Play Disk" menu item

**Iridium** · September 9, 2017 at 5:57 PM Official Post

I think this is related to WD's VCD (Virtual CD).

"The VCD (Virtual CD) is an area of the external hard drive made visible by the drive's firmware. It contains the WD SmartWare software and other drive utilities.

There's a youtube link on the WD website to disable VCD Here

elgatito · September 9, 2017 at 7:45 PM

Quote from Iridium

I think this is related to WD's VCD (Virtual CD).

"The VCD (Virtual CD) is an area of the external hard drive made visible by the drive's firmware. It contains the WD SmartWare software and other drive utilities.

There's a youtube link on the WD website to disable VCD Here

Ya-hoo!!!

Yes, I was trying to google a bit on how to delete that virtual disk, but did not find any info that it can be just disabled easily.

After I disabled it - Disk menu item is gone at last!

Thanks a lot!

**chewitt** · September 10, 2017 at 1:07 PM Official Post

It's also possible to disable the CD mount behaviour with a udev rule, see: LibreELEC.tv/40-modeswitch.rules at master · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub which ejects the CD to force the mode change for a USB wireless stick that does similar things.