I still have two problems (one serious and one just a minor inconvenience) that I haven't been able to solve. I've read any HOWTOs and man pages that seemed relevant, and I've written to the list before but ...... I'm really getting desperate. Can someone PLEASE help ??!!! I apologize for writing all the details here again, but I hope that maybe this time someone will know what my problems are and how to help. My system is Mandrake 7.0 on a Pentium III 500. My serious problem is that I can't use my CDRW. It's a Smart and Friendly 24x, 2x, 2x. The drive is on the Secondary Master EIDE (so it's /dev/hdc). On the Secondary Slave (/dev/hdd) I have a 48x CD-ROM. Using DMESG, I can see that at boot all drives are recognized correctly. But, I also see a message saying that there is an error in the irq on /dev/hdc (which makes no sense since the irq for /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd are the same so what's the problem). And there's a message saying that /dev/hdc cannot be mounted because it's not a valid block device. I get the same message when I try to mount the drive (with or without a disk in it) and this happens from the command line or using the Mandrake Disk utility. I tried **playing with** the /etc/fstab file to add /dev/hdc instead of /dev/CD-ROM and other different changes but this didn't help either. Cdrecord -scanbus sees the drive so ide-scsi support is working. X-cdroast also **sees** the drive and correctly identifies even the model number in the setup menu, but I can't read from or write to the drive. The drive will not work as IDE or SCSI. The really STRANGE thing is that I actually booted and installed Mandrake FROM THIS DRIVE on /dev/hdc so if Mandrake **saw** the drive during the installation, why won't it work now ?? Also, the CDRW works under Win98 and worked on my old computer (Pentium 133 - RedHat 6.0 - kernel recompiled to add ide-scsi support). My second problem (which is only a minor inconvenience) is that SUPERMOUNT has disappeared. At one point (I don't remember when), I saw a message saying the it's not supported by the kernel but this makes no sense for two reasons. First, I had Supermount working and only after a re-install (trying to solve the CDRW problem) it disappeared. And secondly, I have Supermount working on my old computer - installed from the same Mandrake 7.0 CD. Playing around with /etc/fstab was no help here either. If necessary, I would be willing to bring the computer to anyone in the Raanana area who could help (although that might be a problem since I'm not really anxious to carry my 17 inch screen or re-configure X for another setup). //------------------------ Shlomo Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://come.to/shlomo.solomon //------------------------ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
