On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 16:35, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Wednesday January 22 2003 03:08 pm, Robert Goshko wrote: > > > You can look at my review of the beta: > > > > http://www.goshko.ca/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index > >&req=showcontent&id=4 > > from the URL, > "I also had problems unmounting removable media (CD-ROM's and > floppy's). The system would always complain that the device was busy, > even after verifying that nothing I could see was "touching" the > drives." > > Look in lilo.conf (or grub), and see if your removable media drives > were configured properly. In my case floppy wasn't the problem, but > my CDrom an burner were. The Cdrom was now setup as scsi (my hdc). > Neither my burner (hdd) or CDrom would mount a CD for reading. It > appeared to (an is) a 2.4.21 kernel difference. > > The fix was to add (in my case) 'hdc=ide-cd' to lilo.conf an force > the CDrom back to IDE. Now it works great! So simple, yet I didn't > figure it out (Pixel did). Expect beta3 to account for this. Isn't > that what beta's are for ?? Thanks Tom, I'll give that a try, I seem to recall that this "is the way" it was in 8.2. -- ...Rob -- "The time line is on this Mobius Strip." -- Dilbert ===================================================================== Robert Goshko Axis Computer Consulting Services, Inc President Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada http://www.axis-dev.ca/ Supporting the Revolution In Your World ===================================================================== Registered Linux User #260513 GNU/Linux i686 2.4.20-2mdk-725ca 7:28pm up 15 min, 4 users, load average: 1.03, 1.00, 0.52
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