On Saturday 05 July 2003 06:19 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > in /etc/fstab , check every char is identicle including spaces, to, > none /mnt/cdrom supermount > dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,rw,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 >
ok, opened a terminal, "su", password, kwrite, opened up fstab, made the changes, saved, exited. then i went and restarted the computer. don't know if this was necessary or not, i'm used to doing things in mswin, and you have to reboot the computer after any changes to system files. anyway..... went into mandrake control center, mount points, set cd/dvd burner is mounted, and checked the info there. we changed "iocharset=iso8859-1" to what is above, and that change shows. if i click on the options tab, then click advanced, "ro" has been unchecked by the fstab change. ok, so far so good, right? wrong. still doesn't work. i put a music CD in, accessed the cd-rom icon on the desktop, it gives me an error that says "could not enter directory /mnt/cdrom." maybe it's giving me an error because the only cd i had laying on the desk is one of my wife's celine dion CDs....i know i personally go into error mode when i'm forced to listen to it......ok, all joking aside.....ok, so after that, i put in a CD-RW that i created in mswin. nothing special on the cd, it's where i backed up important stuff on my hard drive, mostly pictures of the kids. when i try to access that, it tries for a minute to access, then i get total lockup and the caps lock and scroll lock lights on the keyboard start flashing together. the number lock light goes off and stays off during all this. the only thing i can do is hit the restart button on the computer. not a good thing, i know, but it's all i can do. John, you had said in a previous post: > This is saying that you have chosen scsi-emulation for your writer/rom, > that is what hdc=ide-scsi says. That is OK, if you want it. we never got into the difference between running it this way or running it as IDE, if there is a difference. if it's not run as scsi, will i lose the ability to burn CDs? if not, would changing it so it isn't scsi emulation possibly help? > > Are you quite sure the jumpers on the back of your writer/rom are set to > master, and your device is on ide2 line. > at this point, i'm ready to open up the computer again and triple check to make sure it's on master and that it's on the end of the ribbon, but i just had the computer physically open a week and a half ago to install a new hard drive and i checked it all there. and in the bios it shows that the cd drive is on the secondary channel and is the master. > > I hope so, because if not I don't know what to do to make supermount work. > After that we can try automount if you wish. > > On my own machine supermount does not work well, in spite of being able > to mount the device on the command line, all the apps that need to use > it either don't work at all, or work exceedingly slow, and there is no > possibility of a desktop Icon access to read discs. so if we ran it as automount, i'd lose the desktop icon access? am i understanding this correctly? what's the difference between supermount and automount? personally, i'll take whatever is going to give me 100% functionability of my cd-rw drive. Thanks! we'll get this hammered out somehow! Mike
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