On Sunday 13 March 2005 06:13 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Sunday 13 March 2005 12:31 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: > > You know, I've found that "occasionally" something will monkey with > > fstab, and stuff that was working correctly fails to mount, or fails to > > mount in the correct place. To allow me to see what has happened, I copy > > my fstab as soon as I get everything working, so I can refer back to it > > when things go south. (The fstab backup created at changes isn't > > reliable, because sometimes I don't notice that stuff isn't working for a > > while, and several changes may have been made). K3b seems to be a big > > offender (as you have found out). Also, turn off harddrake--you can > > always turn it back on when new hardware is added. And sometimes, things > > seem to happen for no good reason that I can determine. I thought that I > > might be the only one, but I guess not. > > > > These are the fstab lines for my CD's with Mdk9.2, no scsi emulation on > > the reader. If there was, it might make cdrom2 /dev/scd1. > > > > none /mnt/cdrom supermount > > dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,--,rw,user,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 > > > > none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount > > dev=/dev/hdd,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 > > > > One thing I know, if you unplug a usb device, and don't reboot when you > > plug it back in, a second mount point for the same device will be added > > (my camera does this continuously), and it drives me nuts! Anyone know > > how to stop this? > > > > And finally, I quit using K3b. I have a lot less problems with Eroaster > > because it doesn't continually "lose" my devices. I don't have any DVD > > writers, though, just CDRWs, so I don't know if Eroaster even works with > > DVDRW. > > > > e > > Hi Erylon, thanks for the reply. Well, see...it was a working setup that I > had. Then the problem with my /home occurred and I had to reinstall. I > thought I put everything back the way I had it before, but its obvious that > I must not have. > > I use Gcombust here, like it a lot - it works fine with my setup. It does > not support DVDs though. K3b did, until now, after the reinstall. So I > guess I'll just keep playing with it. :-) There is an additional package for K3b called K3B-dvd or some such and you need it to be able to burn DVDs. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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