Yes, the CD-RW issue is quickly becoming a FAQ on the expert list
(thanks for at least picking the other two lists instead!)
Mankrake 7.0 has a bug (evidently not fixed in in 7.0v2) whereby for a
CD-RW it correctly sets up the LILO parameters to tell it to use
ide-scsi emulation (necessary for CD-RWs under Linux) but fails to make
the corresponding change to the /dev/cdrom (or in your case
/dev/cdrom2) links.
Just
rm /dev/cdrom2
ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom2
(Verify that the /dev/scd0 is the correct device in your case)
and you should be all set for the CD-RW.
As for the zip drive, are you trying to mount MS-DOS zips or do you
have ext2-formatted zips? Also, I'd check the /dev/zip device; if you
have standard zip disks I believe that I recall (from years ago when I
used a zip drive) that the it's /dev/pda3 (or /dev/hdc3 or
whatever--the third partition anyway--that is active on a zip drive as
factory-formatted. You might want to verify where /dev/zip points,
too. Since I know that's the problem with the CD-RW it's a likely
culprit with the zip drive as well.
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In other news, has anybody actually had "supermount" do anything
*useful* for them? It seems to auto-mount ok for me once, but it
doesn't auto-unmount, and ordinary users can't umount them, either, so
I have to go into superuser to just to change the #@$! CD. For this
reason, I've just disabled supermount on my system and use a more
conventional fstab with the "user" option set on all removable devices.
Where is doc on "supermount"? There's no man page I can find other
than the one on the command but all it does it munge /etc/fstab, and
no "howtos" shipped with Mandrake 7.0, as far as I can tell.
On Thu, 02 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| Has any one had a problem with supermount under
| Mandrake 7.0v2? I have two ide cdroms, one of which is
| a cd-writer, and an ide zip drive, but I can only use
| the floppy and first cdrom. When I try to mount the
| zip or the writer it get the following messages:
|
| $ cd /mnt/zip
| bash: cd: /mnt/zip: Input/output error
|
| $ cd /mnt/cdrom2
| bash: cd: /mnt/cdrom2: Input/output error
|
| I have included the entries in the fstab file below:
|
| /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
| /dev/hda5 /mnt/DOS_hda5 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
| /dev/hda6 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
| /dev/hda7 / ext2 defaults 1 1
| /dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0
| /dev/hda9 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
| /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount
| fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
| none /proc proc defaults 0 0
| none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
| /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount
| fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
| /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount
| fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0
| /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount
| fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0
|
| zip -> hdc4
| cdrom -> hdb
| cdrom2 -> hdd
|
| Any help would be greatly appreciated...
|
| Chris
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