normally I'd agree with you, except that the drive in question is a nearly new 48X...
and I also have a brand new 50x that has the same problem.. but like I said, I upgraded to 2.4.20-0.2mdk kernel yesterday, and it all seems good now.. That would seem to indicate software wouldn't it?? especially since I never changed the fstab lines created during mandrake install... when you rule out the obvious, whatever is left, no matter how unlikely is the problem... rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Brinkman Sent: Saturday, 23 November 2002 9:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] First suspect - me On Friday November 22 2002 10:52 am, Franki wrote: > I have no "user" in my fstab at all.. and I had to copy my CD's to > the local hard drive to install stuff.. otherwise rpmdrake just asks > for the same CD over and over, even when it has the right one.. > > If I used them more, i'd take out supermount altogether and mount > manually.. but I keep hoping mandrake will fix it.. > > as a result of this, I think mdk7.2 is still their best ever > release.. > > anyone else agree with me?? No. You may want to consider it's a hardware problem. Either the CD drive or the media (burned or pressed). For instance, I have a lot of movies on CDr's. Dozens of movies on each CDr. If I load a play list from a CDrom, whether usin Mplayer or Xine, most of the time the player will hang on a movie before making it's way thru the whole CD. If I do the same thing, but load the movies usin my burner as a reader, there's never a problem. Much the same with music CDr's or CD's usin Xmms. Rpmdrake often fails to install rpms from my Cdrom drive, but if I remove Cdrom as the sources, and load Cdrom2 (cd-rw) as the sources, it never fails. Bottom line is my Cdrom drive probly has some spindle wobble or laser misalignment, or both. Also, burners use a 'better' laser (narrower, brighter). When ever I've had problems with my ancient floppy drive, it always turns out to be the media. All my floppy's are ancient too ;) Supermount (and Mandrake) IMO, are falling victim to complaints based on the assumption it's the OS's fault, when surely, user, then hardware, and lastly OS should be explored. As the subject says "First suspect - me" then hardware. Eliminate those culprits before complaining about Mandrake and supermount. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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