g, sorry, i didn't have your e-mail address and i had lost the other thread when i formatted / and reinstalled. kmail all got lost, even though i tried to back it up on a windows partition. oh well, back in business now!
fstab dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/scd0 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,umask=0 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 iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb9 swap swap defaults 0 0 lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map 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="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet" 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="devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off failsafe" read-only other=/dev/hda1 label="windows" table=/dev/hda other=/dev/hdb1 label="windows2" table=/dev/hdb map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 other=/dev/fd0 label="floppy" unsafe it's a philips cd-rw drive, model CDD4801/81, it's manufacture date is listed as april 2000, that's physically on the drive, checked today. also found out today that it's meant as an OEM drive for a prebuilt, like a dell or gateway or whatever. of course, i'm not on a prebuilt, i've spent about as much as i would've on a prebuilt and got something that'd kick a prebuilt's you know what (well, once i get the soundblaster LIVE 5.1 card my friend is sending me, freebies are great!) the major issues....i can load a music CD in, go to KsCD and play it and have full control over it. my guess would be that's because the sound is outputting straight to the sound card (because i remembered to hook the cable up for that) and there's minimal control that needs to be done from the "user" end at that point, but that's just a guess. a CD burn was attempted, but it aborted on track 4 of 13. it could be a bad track, not everything was fully written, but it did not complete and the disc reads as if there's nothing on it. upon loading a data CD though, when i try to access it either with the icon on the desktop or through kwikdisc, the computer goes into kernal panic and locks up. i have not tried again through a command line since i formatted and reinstalled, but it was doing the same thing when i was trying before (and i can't remember the exact commands i was using, sorry). cdrecord --scanbus Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'IDE-CD ' 'R/RW 8x4x32 ' 'G1.9' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * (i'm starting to remember how to do some things w/out asking!) now, when i open a terminal and run cd /mnt dir i get 'cdrom floppy scd0 win_c win_c2 win_d win_e win_f win_g' throw mdk9.1 install disc 3 into the drive cd cdrom dir all i get is [EMAIL PROTECTED] cdrom]$ so then i try cd scd0 and it tells me there's no such file or directory. so i 'cd /mnt' and 'dir' again, then 'cd scd0' followed by 'dir' and all i get is [EMAIL PROTECTED] scd0]$ THEN....i noticed this stuff while wandering around the directories.... /dev/cdroms there's a hard disc icon named 'cdrom0'. right click > properties and it says points to ../scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd but that would point it towards the primary ide channel, not the secondary, and the cd drive is on the secondary channel..am i right saying it's trying to point to the primary ide channel? that's a random stab in the dark for me, but that's a guess. at least i'm trying to think! in my bios, Ultra DMA mode is disabled for the cd-rw drive. i don't know if my cd-rw drive supports UDMA, i have choices from 0-4 and disabled. that's another guess for me...might be worthless info, i dunno. ok, i think i've covered all bases....i think...if there's more info needed, lemme know and i'll dig it out. thanks for the help! Mike
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