To all that can help: My friend and I have been working on his drives to get them properly accessible but we continue to have problems. Here is a brief description of our problems: First he installed mandrake 7.0 on his system with the 2.2.14-15 kernel. Everything went very well for him. His floppy was automatically mounted and accessible, and his CD-Rom (52X IDE) was also accessible. Then he purchased an IDE CDR-RW (Teac 4x8). He installed the new hardware but Mandrake didnt recognize it because his kernel was not ScSI emulated so we compiled a new kernel (2.2.14) and enabled scsi emulation. So, then his floppy werked great, his CDROM werked great, and he could use his CDRW, (although his CDRW was not supermounted)so we felt that all was well. (we thought) but during the kernel compilation we didnt enable sound card support so he didnt have any sound. He recompiled the kernel again to enable his sound card and installed his new kernel. Then his CDROM, Floppy, or CDRW would not work, could not access any files on them. He recompiled his kernel again, but soemthing went wrong and he ended up having to totally reformat and start from scratch. When he installed Mandrake again (clean install) Both CDROM and CDRW were supermounted but again he couldnt use his floppy, or either of his CdROMs. So we monkied with the fstab file with no avail. Then we recompiled his kernel again with scsi emulation for his IDE CDRW and installed. The scsi emulation is enabled and it detects his CDRW but he can still not access any files on either his CDROM, CDRW, or his floppy drive. Now, with all of that said. I know that there has to be a way to get everything werking like it should. We have read man pages and doc pages but still have yet to be successful. So, if anyone could give me a few pointers on what to do (or what not to do) to make this set up werk, I would really appreciate it. Hopefully I described everything enough, if you need to know more about this situation feel free to ask. -- Maxtor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.maxtors.com
