Excellent, that's the problem sorted - I just disabled supermount and
away it went... There *must* be a problem with supermount?!?! Not too
sure why, when it worked well in 8.2?!?

Andy

On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 00:10, Todd Flinders wrote:
> Yeah, I've had lots of CD-ROM reading errors myself.  I believe there is 
> something wrong with 9.0's supermount.  In my case disabling supermount 
> immediately fixed the problem.  The problem was only occurring on certain CDs 
> as well, but it would happen reliably with those CDs.  Others always worked 
> fine.
> 
> To disable supermount:
> 
>               supermount -i disable
> 
> To enable it again:
> 
>               supermount -i enable
> 
> On Wednesday 09 October 2002 05:22 am, Andy Weller wrote:
> > Does anyone know of any CD-ROM read errors. It seems very temperamental
> > to me. I have two identical CD's with a 3rd party application on and
> > depending on what mood the PC is in, depends on whether it will read the
> > CD's or not!?!
> >
> > It doesn't matter if I 'su' or 'su -' to root, the problems are still
> > there. Sometimes I get lucky and it will install nearly all of my
> > application, other times it won't do anything, and I am back to square
> > one...!
> >
> > I'm really not too sure what I am doing wrong. These CD's have worked
> > perfectly before in 8.2, 8.1, 8.0 & 7.2. I have even tried to clean the
> > laser.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Andy


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