Brian....yep, supermount works fine here. Two floppies (1.44 &
1.2) a cdrom (scsi), and a zip 100 (also scsi). The cdrom
ejects fine and never locks closed. IDE ls-120 does not work
with supermount, so it is used the normal Linux way.
Alan
"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
>
> Yes, the CD-RW issue is quickly becoming a FAQ on the expert list
> (thanks for at least picking the other two lists instead!)
>
> Mankrake 7.0 has a bug (evidently not fixed in in 7.0v2) whereby for a
> CD-RW it correctly sets up the LILO parameters to tell it to use
> ide-scsi emulation (necessary for CD-RWs under Linux) but fails to make
> the corresponding change to the /dev/cdrom (or in your case
> /dev/cdrom2) links.
>
> Just
>
> rm /dev/cdrom2
> ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom2
>
> (Verify that the /dev/scd0 is the correct device in your case)
>
> and you should be all set for the CD-RW.
>
> As for the zip drive, are you trying to mount MS-DOS zips or do you
> have ext2-formatted zips? Also, I'd check the /dev/zip device; if you
> have standard zip disks I believe that I recall (from years ago when I
> used a zip drive) that the it's /dev/pda3 (or /dev/hdc3 or
> whatever--the third partition anyway--that is active on a zip drive as
> factory-formatted. You might want to verify where /dev/zip points,
> too. Since I know that's the problem with the CD-RW it's a likely
> culprit with the zip drive as well.
>
> =============================================================
>
> In other news, has anybody actually had "supermount" do anything
> *useful* for them? It seems to auto-mount ok for me once, but it
> doesn't auto-unmount, and ordinary users can't umount them, either, so
> I have to go into superuser to just to change the #@$! CD. For this
> reason, I've just disabled supermount on my system and use a more
> conventional fstab with the "user" option set on all removable devices.
>
> Where is doc on "supermount"? There's no man page I can find other
> than the one on the command but all it does it munge /etc/fstab, and
> no "howtos" shipped with Mandrake 7.0, as far as I can tell.
>
> On Thu, 02 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> | Has any one had a problem with supermount under
> | Mandrake 7.0v2? I have two ide cdroms, one of which is
> | a cd-writer, and an ide zip drive, but I can only use
> | the floppy and first cdrom. When I try to mount the
> | zip or the writer it get the following messages:
> |
> | $ cd /mnt/zip
> | bash: cd: /mnt/zip: Input/output error
> |
> | $ cd /mnt/cdrom2
> | bash: cd: /mnt/cdrom2: Input/output error
> |
> | I have included the entries in the fstab file below:
> |
> | /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
> | /dev/hda5 /mnt/DOS_hda5 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
> | /dev/hda6 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
> | /dev/hda7 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> | /dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0
> | /dev/hda9 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
> | /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount
> | fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
> | none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> | none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> | /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount
> | fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
> | /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount
> | fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0
> | /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount
> | fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0
> |
> | zip -> hdc4
> | cdrom -> hdb
> | cdrom2 -> hdd
> |
> | Any help would be greatly appreciated...
> |
> | Chris
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