On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Randall F Banner wrote:
> recognize the drive at all, and in addition I can't mount the floppy or zip
> drives either. I get an "input/output error" when trying. This happens
> even when I stop vmWare.
>
> (Funny thing, I can still boot DOS from the floppy, and I can even boot he
> mdk cd from thr cd-rom drive, I just can't mount either one from inside
> Linux)
>
> I'm not absolutely sure that vmWare is the problem, but the similarity
> between your story and mine sure makes it look suspicious. Hopefully
> someone else on the list will have some words of wisdom...
VERY interesting, I have the exact same thing and thought that it was me
misconfiguring something somewhere!
I also get a lot of input/output error (on my CDRW) AND have vmware
running. I never got it until I got vmware. However, It is about the same
time I got an new system and upgraded to 7.2. Sometimes, nothing ever
helps and just reboot. I can still burn CD's in it, in fact sometimes the
problems SEEMS to go away right after I fix a cd with cdrecord. However,
more often than not, it does not help and could be just random. Sometimes
unmounting the CDRW so that supermount is not controlling and then
mounting again with supermount helps, but again that is rare. Most of the
time, when the input/output errors start nothing helps.
