Your fstab and lilo.conf files look fine to me. My guess would be a hardware problem. I see the CD-RW is the only device on the secondary IDE interface. Do you have the 'master' jumper correctly set on the back of the CD drive? Or perhaps you have it set to 'Cable Select'? (Linux does not work well with cable select) (Obviously the drive is 'capable' of working since I assume you installed Mandrake using it.)
HTH derek On Thursday 10 Jul 2003 5:51 am, Michael wrote: > been working with few people offlist to try to get my cd-rw drive to work, > but i thought i'd post it back to the list to try to see if anyone else has > ideas. > > cd-rw drive was origonally a supermount, it's been changed to automount. > we've modified fstab. > i've tried kiwkdisc. > > none of it matters, because when i go to access a cd in my drive, after > about 30 seconds, the caps lock and scroll lock lights on the keyboard > start flashing and the computer completely locks up. the only way to get > out of it is to hit the restart button on the case. i've had more hard > crashes in trying to get this working than i can count at this point. so > far i've even gotten an error from Noatun media player (which was running > during one hard crash) that it had a crash (but didn't tell me what it was) > and even got an error earlier that KDE had some type of crash (didn't say > why, just said it had a crash). so obviously things are NOT working right > over here. keep in mind to anyone that can help, i'm a SUPER NEWBIE, so > saying "just change this to this" has to be a little bit more specific, if > you know what i mean (it's my first time....running command lines, that > is!). when it comes to computers i'm a very slow learner, the harder i try > the worse it gets. my cd drive is listed as compatible hardware....because > i know that was going to be the first question anyone asked. > > hardware: Asus KV7-RM, AMD 950, 768mb ram, 20g MDT and 100g MDT hard > drives, Nvidia video card, soundblaster 16PCI sound card, sony floppy > drive, Phillips CD-RW drive....so it's all modern hardware, nothing > ancient, except maybe the floppy drive, which i know is probably 5 years > old. > > running Mandrake 9.1 > also running windows 98, and the cd drive is fully functional over there > > here's my fstab: > > /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 > /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 > /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto > iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,sync,unhide,noauto,nosuid,umask=0,user,nod >ev 0 0 > /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 > /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 > /dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 > /dev/hdb6 /mnt/win_e vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 > /dev/hdb7 /mnt/win_f vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 > /dev/hdb8 /mnt/win_g vfat defaults 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 > /dev/hdb9 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > > here's my lilo.conf > > boot=/dev/hda > map=/boot/map > vga=normal > default="linux" > keytable=/boot/us.klt > prompt > nowarn > timeout=100 > message=/boot/message > menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw > image=/boot/vmlinuz > label="linux" > root=/dev/hda5 > initrd=/boot/initrd.img > append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off" > vga=788 > read-only > image=/boot/vmlinuz > label="linux-nonfb" > root=/dev/hda5 > initrd=/boot/initrd.img > append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off" > read-only > image=/boot/vmlinuz > label="failsafe" > root=/dev/hda5 > initrd=/boot/initrd.img > append="failsafe devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off" > read-only > other=/dev/hda1 > label="windows" > table=/dev/hda > other=/dev/fd0 > label="floppy" > unsafe > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.22mdk > label="2421-22" > root=/dev/hda5 > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.22mdk.img > append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off" > vga=788 > read-only > > I know a lot of this is trial and error, but i'm praying someone can hit > the nail on the head and get this one on the first try. i'm starting to > get a little worried here because i've had so many hard crashes it's not > even funny anymore. we also tried installing a new kernel > > kernel-2.4.21.0.22mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm > > and that didn't work. btw, anyone have any idea how much damage i could've > done to the system so far with all the hard crashes i've had? > > thanks to anyone that can help! > > Mike -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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