On Tuesday 21 January 2003 06:47 pm, Adam Williamson wrote: <snip > > > > Er, do you mean the other way around? As I said, it's hdc that's meant > > > to stay as an IDE device, and hdd that's meant to be scsi-fied :). If > > > you do, I'll try that out next time I reboot, and report back. > > > > I just did (both ways hdc=ide-cd and hdc=ide-cdrom) and there's no > > difference. Interesting thing though, now I get a red "failed" at the > > devfs mounting local filesystems "no medium found" warning. Floppy drive > > tries to run at boot now too. I have no access to any removable media now > > at all. The floppy may have been part of it previously. Yep, I just > > checked the copy of mtab I saved and what's at /etc/mtab now, the same > > exactly. > > Do I infer from this that you have the same situation as me? i.e., CDROM > drive going through ide-scsi that shouldn't be?
Yes, I've been chasing it for three days now. It seems that when I disabled supermount for the -ROM and the -RW I managed to get them to mount manually (using hdc=ide-cdrom) but it still doesn't work seem to be working correctly. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 http://counter.li.org That's the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on a ball. -- Bill Veeck