Thanks for the response, sorry I didn't respond back sooner but I changed email programs and just now finished updating all the threads.
I now sorta have the drives working. The problem was that in my fstab I had scd0 and scd1 but when I tried to mount them I got an error not a block device. I looked in /dev/cdroms/ and I saw the entried cdrom0 and cdrom1 I added them to my fstab and voila the drives mount now. It just makes no sense to me but there you have it. Still my ide plextor gives me a message no media found but when I try to mount the light goes on and I see it trying to scan the drive so I know its working..... Thanks so far. Aaron On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 12:59, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 27 Dec 2002 11:46 am, Aaron wrote: > > Hi I have been running mandrake 9.0 for the last few months. > > I have a number of hardware issues which I can't seem to resolve. > > I am writing one last time before I install RedHat. > > > > I have three cdroms on my computer > > one is a dvd ide drive hitachi > > the second is and ide plextor burner 40/12/40a > > and the third is a true scsi plextor 40max > > > > The only one I can use as a cd drive is the dvd one. > > Do you mean that you can't even read from the others? My Hitachi dvd drive is > the one I installed from, therefore the one that all updates are taken from. > This may be the case with you, but you should be able to read from the > others. > > > The writer worked from eroster and webadmin until last week when I get > > errors (which I don't remember) > > > > the drives are not mountable etc. > > Which method do you use to try to mount them? What happens? > > > here is my fstab, > > > > /dev/hda5 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 > > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 > > /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto > > codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,user,nodev 0 0 > > /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto > > If this one is the burner, it needs the ro changing to rw > > > codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,user,nodev 0 0 > > This is my equivalent line: > none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount > dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 > > Of course, supermount doesn't work in every setup, so using auto instead > should work fine. Keep it simple, at least until you have a working system, > then make changes one at a time. > > > /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom3 auto > > codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,user,nodev 0 0 > > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto > > iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,sync,unhide,noauto,nosuid,user,nodev 0 > > 0 > > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > > /dev/hda8 /snd ext3 defaults 1 2 > > /dev/hda1 /windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 > > /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > --------------------------------------- > > The second problem is my printer I have a usb deskjet 3420 of HP. > > Mandrake finds it and installs all the necessary drivers etc. but it > > doesnt print a test page or any other page for that matter. > > The driver installed by default isn't always the best one. Go to Mandrake > Control Centre, remove the printer, then re-install it. Take care to use the > Advanced (or is it Expert?) button, which lists the models in detail. This > should ensure that you get the best driver. It's very difficult to change > the driver on an existing printer setup. Much easier and quicker to start > again. > > Anne > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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