On Monday 10 March 2003 04:17 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote: > It takes a few minutes to mount a CDROM on my drive using Mandrake 9.0. > This is too long. > > I have a dual-boot machine, choice of SuSE or Mandrake. There is no > working Microsoft software on the machine. With SuSE it takes less > than a second to mount the CDROM. > > I suspect very strongly that this is a software problem. > > While booting, I get the following relevant-looking messages: > > ... > ... > hdd: HL-DT-DT CD-ROM GCR-8520B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > ... > ... > hdd: lost interrupt > hdd: lost interrupt > hdd: lost interrupt > hdd: ATAPI 52x CD-ROM drive, 128kN Cache, DMA > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 > ... > ... > > I mount the CDROM (it happens to be the second Mandrake installation CD) > with the following command: > > mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom > > (except on SuSE I mount it on /cdrom instead of /mnt/cdrom. Oh yes, > SuSE does not give me the "lost interrupt" messages either.) > > It then sits around for a few minutes, and finally comes back mounted. > > The Mandrake I use is the Mandrake PowerPack Edition 9.0, > but during installation it would not look at any but the first > installation CD. It also seems to have failed to install emacs. > > I encountered this problem while trying to add additional installation > sources. Starting up the Mandrake Control Centre took more than four > minutes. A little hard to understand if this is just a thin shell for > launching other programs. > > Then it tales a long time to start up the sources manager, and finally, > showing it the other CD's takes a long time. When I actually got the > second installation CD mounted, I still dod not succeed in getting it to > look at it. since > (a) I can't figure out what I am to fill in as relative path to > synthesis/hdlist. The manual just tells me that if I don't > understand what it is talking about I will be wise to leave > the window via "cancel" instead of "save changes". > and > (b) "Adding a source" dies, and just leaves blank windows lying > around forever. I suppose it might just be in suspended > animation waiting for the CDROM drive, but leaving it that > way overnight provides no progress. > > Experimentation and exploration is too tedious for words because of all the > mount delays. > > Under the circumstance, the remainder of Mandrake is a little hard to > install or configure! > > -- hendrik
I solved this problem by disabling supermount on my removable drives.You can do this in the Mandrake Control Center -> Mount Points. ->CD Rom or Floppy -> Options -> supermount. -- Michael Shinobi Mandrake 9.0 http://lazyalfalfa.tripod.com/
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