I am runing LM9 on a laptop. I periodically swap the floppy drive, the cdrom and a 2nd hard disk in and out of a single media bay. Supermount is installed and seems to work fine so that if any of the devices is installed, ls /mnt/<file system> returns the contents of that device/drive.
I have noticed that if I try to ls the filesystem for an uninstalled device (e.g. ls /mnt/floppy when the floppy drive is not installed, or ls /mnt/cdrom when it is not installed) the system spends a lot of time thinking. Usually I have to kill the terminal since nothing is returned. The rest of the system seems to work fine during this time and I have never had to reboot. I think this is related to the finding that wine freezes if I try to use a File -> Open dialog...I think it's trying to locate /mnt/floppy and /mnt/cdrom. Does anyone know why the system doesn't just return nothing after ls /mnt/<file system>, but rather thinks "forever"? Is my suspicion about wine correct and are the problems related? Could I create a dummy floppy and cdrom directory for wine to look at? Is there another solution other than to turn off supermount. How would I do this? TIA, Paul
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